A 22-year-old Forest Lake man who officials say posed as a teen to enroll and attend classes at White Bear Lake Area High School last month allegedly received nude photos from one girl, and several parents reported possible sexual assaults, according to a search warrant affidavit.
A Washington County judge signed off on a search warrant for the man’s phone on Oct. 1, the same day he was booked into the county jail for violating probation in July in a 2023 case in which he sent a 15-year-old girl a nude picture of himself through Snapchat.
The affidavit, written by a White Bear Lake investigator and filed in court Monday, says the mother of a girl who attends the high school reported Sept. 29 that her daughter recognized a jail booking photo that was circulating on Snapchat.
The mugshot was of a 22-year-old man with a different name than what he went by at school. The report led to an immediate investigation by both the school district and police.
Multiple girls have come forward to report that the man had been communicating with them through text messages and social media, the affidavit said.
“A school resource officer is following up with an allegation that (the man) received nude photos from a juvenile female,” the affidavit continued.
The court document did not provide details into the parents’ reports of “possible sexual assault incidents” involving the man.
The police investigator wrote the man’s phone “will contain texts, social media messages and photos that would likely show evidence of (criminal sexual conduct), soliciting a minor and child pornography crimes.”
The phone also could include cellphone location data “further providing evidence into some of these incidents,” the affidavit said.
The man was enrolled in the district from Sept. 3 to 29, the day after he was arrested on warrants from a past theft conviction in Anoka County and the probation violation.
The Pioneer Press is not naming the man because he has not been charged with any crimes relating to his time as a high school student.
Last week, White Bear Lake Police Chief Dale Hager said the man is under investigation for fraud, forgery and unlawful conduct involving interaction with minors.
White Bear Lake Area Schools Superintendent Wayne Kazmierczak said in an email to families the man skirted around the enrollment process by claiming he was a homeless youth and by using a birth certificate from another country that indicated he was 18.
Kazmierczak said the man certified on district forms that he was a homeless unaccompanied youth, a designation that requires school districts to follow the McKinney Vento Act. The federal law mandates the immediate enrollment of eligible students even if they cannot provide standard documentation such as academic records, immunization or proof of residency.
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The birth certificate, which listed a phony name of Kelvin C. Perry Jr., included an authentic watermarking and official stamps/seals, according to Kazmierczak, adding there “was no indication that the document was anything less than authentic.”
The man also registered for football on Sept. 8 and participated in three practices, Kazmierczak said.
The man pleaded guilty to the probation violation on Oct. 2, according to court records, which do not disclose what the violation entailed. A judge then ordered him to complete three days of work service, and he was released from custody the same day.
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