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Minnesota Man Charged With Forgery After Posing as White Bear Lake High School Student

The case highlights gaps in how schools verify age when enrolling homeless or unaccompanied youths.

Overview

  • Ramsey County prosecutors, who filed charges Wednesday, accused the man of using forged documents to attend White Bear Lake Area High School last fall.
  • The case lists two aggravated forgery counts and one forgery count, and no first court appearance is posted yet.
  • The complaint says he enrolled as “Kelvin Ciatte Perry, Jr.” using a Liberian birth certificate that listed 2007 as his birth year.
  • Police say jail booking records led them to U.S. documents, including a passport, driver’s license, and birth certificate, that list his birth date as May 30, 2003.
  • District leaders say he attended 19 days and joined football practices under a federal rule that tells schools to quickly enroll homeless or unaccompanied youth even when eligibility is in dispute.