Retired teacher from Indiana arrested for soliciting sex from teen, police say – Sun Sentinel

Retired Indiana teacher arrested in Boynton, accused of soliciting sex from teen

A retired Indiana teacher was arrested in Boynton Beach after he solicited sex from an officer posing as a 15-year-old boy, police said.

The Boynton Beach Police Department arrested Dennis Blake, 64, after he drove from Indiana to South Florida to have sex with a 15-year-old boy.

The officer posing as the teen exchanged messages with Blake since October and arranged to meet him Thursday at the Boynton Beach Mall.

During their messaging, Blake sent the officer sexually explicit pictures of himself, police said.

He is charged with soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct, traveling to meet a minor to commit an unlawful sex act and transmission of harmful material to a minor.

He is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail without bail.

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