The Flagstaff Police Department has arrested Mr. Jerrod Schmidt, age 38, of Flagstaff, AZ, for trespassing and a violation of sex offender registration requirements after reports the suspect was peering into windows of Summit High School.
This morning, January 12, at approximately 8:08 a.m., the Flagstaff Police Department responded to Summit High School in reference to a report of an adult male who had climbed a tree and was looking into unoccupied classrooms at the school. Staff stated that the suspect fled the area when confronted by school officials.
After police arrived the suspect returned to the school and was detained when school staff identified the man as the person looking into classroom windows. The suspect then fled the area again through fenced commercial properties. He was later located at the Flagstaff Mall.
Police identified the suspect as Schmidt and learned that he was registered as a sex offender and had been evicted from his residential address ten days ago. Security Staff at the mall informed police they had previously trespassed the subject from the Mall.