La Mesa
A Helix High School physics teacher is awaiting extradition to Wyoming after being booked into County Jail on charges of distributing methamphetamine in that state.
Richard Franklin Rainer, 40, was jailed on a no-bail fugitive warrant for reportedly selling controlled substances in Wyoming, a jail spokeswoman said.
He was arrested about 7 a.m. Monday near his home in East San Diego while on his way to the La Mesa school.
Rainer had been a substitute teacher in the Grossmont Unified High School District since September and was made a full-time teacher in April.
He was being sought on charges of conspiracy to distribute, transport and sell methamphetamine by the Northeast Wyoming Drug Enforcement Task Force.
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