{"id":135181,"date":"2026-01-28T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135181\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:38:08","slug":"florida-substitute-teacher-was-drunker-than-cooter-brown-while-at-lake-alfred-polytech-grady-judd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135181\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida substitute teacher was \u2018drunker than Cooter Brown\u2019 while at Lake Alfred Polytech: Grady Judd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">LAKE ALFRED, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/people\/sheriff-grady-judd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd<\/a> said a substitute teacher at Lake Alfred Polytech got an education from deputies who said he was driving drunk on school property Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Polk County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office, a school resource officer saw Micah Alan Dyal, 44, of Haines City, trying to back out of a parking space shortly before 10:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Deputies said Dyal did a field sobriety test, and he showed multiple signs of impairment and had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/mother-charged-murder-accused-suffocating-4-year-old-son-death-st-pete-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mother charged with murder, accused of suffocating 4-year-old son: St. Pete Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dyal was arrested and charged with DUI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/micah-alan-dyal-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;This substitute teacher was drunker than Cooter Brown at school while he was supposed to be teaching our children,&#8221; explained Judd. &#8220;We gave him an education when we took him to jail.&#8221;<br \/>Polk County Public Schools provided the following statement:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;We commend our school staff for noticing that something was off, and not allowing this individual to proceed to the classroom yesterday. What a terrible decision and unacceptable behavior from someone working on a campus. This person will no longer have any involvement with PCPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dyal, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, consented to a blood draw. That blood sample will be submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for testing to determine blood-alcohol content and\/or drug use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE ALFRED, Fla. &#8211; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a substitute teacher at Lake Alfred Polytech got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,7153,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-135181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-polk","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}