TEMECULA, CA — A registered sex offender was arrested this week after trespassing on the Temecula Chaparral High School campus and photographing student dancers, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Southwest Riverside Station announced.
Thirty-six-year-old Blake Taylor White, who is registered as a sex offender in Temecula, was arrested on Wednesday and was being held on $100,000 bail at the Southwest Detention Center. He was slated to answer charges Friday at the Murrieta Southwest Justice Center for being a sex offender on school grounds, classified as a misdemeanor offense.
Tuesday at 9:15 p.m., at the behest of student dancers, a concerned parent reported a suspicious individual on a school campus in the 27000 block of Nicolas Road in Temecula.
A person believed to be White was seen “recording a dance performance from a distance,” according to Sgt. Narciso. “A student noticed he possibly had explicit photos on his cell phone and informed her parents.”
The man was recording a practice session, which caught the attention of the high school dancers.
“I was on stage performing our set, and I noticed the man in the back with his phone in the air,” he wrote in an emailed statement. “I asked multiple people if they knew him, but no one did. The teacher did not know him either. We went and confronted him, and I asked who he was. The man said he was ‘just coming from the gym.'”
According to the student’s statement, White told the kids he “just wanted to watch the show ” when asked what he was doing there.
Several of the dance students demanded that White delete the photos from his phone and leave, and while doing so, at least one saw pornographic pictures on his device, he told Patch.
Ultimately, White left the school, and “we watched him get into a (pool cleaning service) truck and drive away.”
The student told Patch he saw White drive away in a pool cleaning service truck emblazoned with the company name ‘Splash Zone’ on the side.
The students and teachers immediately notified their Southwest Sheriff’s Station School Resource Deputy, and White was identified as a registered sex offender on the California Megan’s Law database.
Deputies located White a day later in a Temecula neighborhood and arrested him on misdemeanor charges of being a sex registrant and trespassing on a school campus.
In 2024, he was arrested and placed on the sex offense registry for violating California Offense Code: 647.6(a)(1), Annoying or molesting a child under 18 years of age. According to the Megan’s Law database, he was released the same year.
Riverside County residents can visit the Megan’s Law website to familiarize themselves with the sex registrants in their community.
Anybody with additional information is urged to contact Deputy Kevin Au at the Southwest Sheriff Station, (951) 696-3000.
On Yelp, a ‘Blake W’ has claimed the Splash Zone pool cleaning page as that business owner. In uploaded photos, a business card photo shows the name Blake White, associated as the owner of a company called ‘Clear And Bright Headlight Restoration.’
