Dunlap Police arrest sex offender on school property with kids in van

DUNLAP, Tennessee (WDEF) – A Sequatchie County detective spotted a registered sex offender at a school Friday morning.

He witnessed 37-year-old Jonathon Eric Kelly driving a van on school property with three children inside it.

Kelly is classified as a Violent Against Children sex offender.

He is currently on probation after being released from prison in November.

And he is required to be on an ankle bracelet.

In 2001, Kelly was convicted of aggravated sexual battery.

And in 2011, he was was convicted of exploitation of a minor by electric means and aggravated rape of a child.

When officers pulled the vehicle over, they found the mother of the children also in the van.

She told them she had recently met Kelly, but didn’t know he was a sex offender.

Kelley has been arrested for violating the registry and is being held without bond in the Sequatchie County Jail.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation keeps a list of register sex offenders on their website, http://sor.tbi.tn.gov/SOMainpg.aspx