BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. — Two days ago, the Blount County Sheriff’s Office said that a former high school teacher had been caught in Georgia and would be sent back to Tennessee to face multiple child sex charges.
Shane Rewis, 51, from Maryville, was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday morning and is being held until he can be sent back to Tennessee to face the charges against him. Three counts of exploitation of a minor by electronic means, sexual exploitation of a minor, and two counts of ongoing sexual abuse of a child were brought against him by a Blount County grand jury earlier this month.
The sheriff’s office began looking into Rewis in May after two victims under the age of 18 said he had contacted them online with inappropriate comments and pictures, according to BCSO. During the probe, another victim under the age of 18 was found.
The sheriff’s office said that after Rewis was charged, officers from their office the U.S. Marshals Service Smoky Mountain Fugitive Task Force, and the Southeast Regional Task Force started looking for him. He was caught early Tuesday morning and is being held in the Seminole County Jail right now.
The Blount County Sheriff’s Office told 6 News in October that it was looking into Rewis, but they wouldn’t say what the investigation was about. The school district in Blount County said that Rewis used to teach at Heritage High, and his personnel file showed that he quit his job there in September.
It was also written in Rewis’s personnel file that he was being looked into for “inappropriate communication with a student that is explicit.” The conversations with students happened on a social media site.
Source: Woman Who Used to Teach in Blount County Was Caught in Georgia on Charges of Child Sex Crimes
