REGIONAL: High-risk sex offender arrested after entering girls’ bathroom at Santa Rosa elementary school
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NORTH COAST, Calif. – Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies this week arrested a Santa Rosa sex registrant after he was found in a girls bathroom at a Santa Rosa elementary school.
Alan Brelsford, a 39-year-old sex registrant out of Santa Rosa, was arrested in the incident, which occurred just before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Redwood Adventist Academy Elementary School, according to Sgt. Spencer Crum of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.
Crum said a parent and school staff at the school found a man later identified as Brelsford inside the girls’ bathroom.
They confronted the Brelsford, who Crum said had no business being on the campus of the elementary school. Brelsford claimed he was watching a helicopter when he felt he needed to use the restroom.
Crum said school staff escorted Brelsford off the property and took a picture of his truck as he left the school parking lot. The truck was described as a lifted Chevrolet pickup with black rims.
While deputies were on campus taking the report, Brelsford drove by the school slowly again, Crum said.
Crum said the deputies spotted Brelsford’s truck and were able to get in their patrol car and make a traffic stop on him in the area of the school.
Brelsford again couldn’t provide a good explanation as to why he was on the campus and why he was in the girls' bathroom, Crum said.
Deputies ascertained that Brelsford was a registered sex offender out of Sacramento County from a 2006 indecent exposure/unlawful entry case but is currently living in Santa Rosa, according to Crum.
Crum said Brelsford’s status as a sex offender precludes him from being at an elementary school without lawful business.
Brelsford was arrested and booked into the Sonoma County Jail on the misdemeanor charge and has since been released on bail, Crum said.
Further investigation found that in 2006, Brelsford was caught by school staff while exposing himself and masturbating behind a fence of an all-girls private high school in Sacramento. He was arrested and convicted of the sex crime which placed him into the sex registry, according to Crum.
Based on these incidents, Crum said the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has concerns about his threat to public safety. As a result, they released information about his case along with his picture.
Crum said anyone who sees Brelsford on school grounds or acting suspiciously is encouraged to contact the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office or their local law enforcement agency.