A Minnesota high school is under scrutiny after authorities say a 22-year-old registered sex offender successfully posed as a teenage student and even practiced with the school's football team for nearly a month. Police allege Kelvin Micaiah Luebke enrolled as 17-year-old "KJ Perry" at White Bear Lake Area High School using falsified documents. He was arrested Sunday during a traffic stop on unrelated charges. CBS News reports he attended the school for 19 days.
School officials conceded that Luebke slipped through despite an "enrollment process [that] is as rigorous as state law allows." Fox News reports the district requires a birth certificate, proof of address, and immunization records to register, and that the school is investigating how he managed to use "fraudulent documentation and a false identity to enroll." White Bear Lake Area School Superintendent Wayne Kazmierczak tells KSTP that Luebke enrolled as a "homeless unaccompanied youth," and that the district is legally required to admit such students even if they can't provide proof of immunizations or residency. He says Luebke used a foreign birth certificate that stated he was 18 and featured what looked like "authentic watermarking and official stamps/seals."
In a letter to families, Principal Russ Reetz credited alert staff and parents with flagging the deception and reporting it, saying, "These reports led to our investigation." Luebke's criminal record includes indecent exposure and harassment involving minors. He was reportedly convicted of sending explicit images to a 15-year-old and has previously faced allegations of inappropriate contact with juveniles. KARE11 reports that as of Wednesday no charges had been filed; investigators are reportedly considering possible criminal violations of fraud, forgery, and unlawful conduct involving interactions with minors.
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