Registered sex offender arrested after picking up his child from Wake County school

Wake County sheriff’s deputies arrested a registered sex offender Tuesday after he picked up his child from a Wake County elementary school.

Jimmy Spence, 50, was charged as a sex offender on school premises, a felony. Having previously been convicted of a sex offense, Spence is not allowed on Wake County public school property, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.

Spence was accused of rape in Virginia in 1999 and was convicted in 2001, according to North Carolina’s sex offender registry.

He is being held in Wake County Detention Center on $15,000 bail.

The Sheriff’s Office is not identifying the school Spence visited to protect the privacy of the child, the release says.

This story was originally published October 29, 2019 at 4:10 PM.