The headmaster of an expensive Bay Area private school is facing criminal charges after police busted him last week in a Sacramento hotel with a large drug stash and an unconscious woman.

Police began investigating when the 21-year-old woman's boyfriend called police and asked them to check on his girlfriend, who he believed was with an "older man" taking drugs at a hotel.

Thomas Woodrow Price was arrested when he opened the hotel room door and officers spotted the woman, Brittney Hall, passed out on a bed. Police also reportedly found meth, cocaine, heroin and prescription drugs. Both Price and Hall were arrested and charged with intent to distribute.

Price resigned as headmaster Monday when reporters began contacting the school about his arrest, according to a statement from the Branson School's Board of Trustees Chair.

The news of Woody Price's arrest is so bizarre as to defy logical explanation. And I have none. I can only say that the first time any Branson employee or trustee knew of his arrest was when the local media descended on the campus at about noon on Monday. His resignation was tendered and accepted before anyone could speak with him about the incident.