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(Bartlett, TN 10/21/2009) When 32-year-old Daniel Wax showed up at Ellendale Elementary for lunch with his daughter, it sent off a warning.
The visitor check-in computer found Wax on the Tennessee sex offender's registry.
Police were called and Wax was arrested.
"They cannot be on school property or near school property, if they have kids at school have to go to the school and work out arrangements with the principal," says Inspector Jeff Cox with the Bartlett Police Department.
Wax never did that and never told police he moved to Bartlett.
The school system's Raptor computer, now in every county school, caught him.
We checked out the system at Bon Lin Middle, where they scan the driver's license and connect to a national data base that brings up alerts.
"It's protecting our students from someone who may not have a reason to be at the school," says Bon Lin's Principal Russell Dyer.
Daniel Wax has a long list of arrests, including a 2003 falsifying sexual registry charge.
At the Bartlett home where Wax told police he lives, the nanny told us about his statutory rape charge when he was 19.
"It was 12 years ago. The girl the incident happened with was 15-years-old and it was his girlfriend," says Angela Strickland.
She says Wax doesn't live at the home, but his daughter does.
So why didn't he tell the school about his past?
"When you get in trouble with the law maybe you just don't think about stuff that I gotta be honest with everything. You learn but maybe he hasn't yet," says Strickland. Daniel Wax waved his Preliminary Hearing in Bartlett and was transferred to jail in Memphis.
He was being held on a $2500 bond and is expected in court December 4th.
- Man who is registered sex offender brought lunch to daughter sat school
- Daniel Wax is registered as offender for 1997 statutory rape charge for sex with a 15-year-old girl
- Police say Wax is registered in one place while living in another
april.thompson@wreg.com
(Bartlett, TN 10/21/2009) When 32-year-old Daniel Wax showed up at Ellendale Elementary for lunch with his daughter, it sent off a warning.
The visitor check-in computer found Wax on the Tennessee sex offender's registry.
Police were called and Wax was arrested.
"They cannot be on school property or near school property, if they have kids at school have to go to the school and work out arrangements with the principal," says Inspector Jeff Cox with the Bartlett Police Department.
Wax never did that and never told police he moved to Bartlett.
The school system's Raptor computer, now in every county school, caught him.
We checked out the system at Bon Lin Middle, where they scan the driver's license and connect to a national data base that brings up alerts.
"It's protecting our students from someone who may not have a reason to be at the school," says Bon Lin's Principal Russell Dyer.
Daniel Wax has a long list of arrests, including a 2003 falsifying sexual registry charge.
At the Bartlett home where Wax told police he lives, the nanny told us about his statutory rape charge when he was 19.
"It was 12 years ago. The girl the incident happened with was 15-years-old and it was his girlfriend," says Angela Strickland.
She says Wax doesn't live at the home, but his daughter does.
So why didn't he tell the school about his past?
"When you get in trouble with the law maybe you just don't think about stuff that I gotta be honest with everything. You learn but maybe he hasn't yet," says Strickland. Daniel Wax waved his Preliminary Hearing in Bartlett and was transferred to jail in Memphis.
He was being held on a $2500 bond and is expected in court December 4th.
