Sex offender arrested at game

RATHDRUM - A 52-year-old registered sex offender was arrested at a high school football game on Friday night for allegedly loitering on school grounds and making sexual comments to minors.

David B. Fredericks, Post Falls, was being held at the Kootenai County jail on Monday on a $300 bond.

He was arrested midway through Lakeland High's homecoming game against Post Falls outside the east entrance of Corbit Field near the staff parking lot.

"We were advised that there was a middle-aged guy outside the fence who was making inappropriate comments to kids as they walked by," said Rathdrum Police Chief Kevin Fuhr.

An off-duty Post Falls Police employee at the game told officers that Fredericks has a history of loitering at schools and the library in Post Falls.

Post Falls police Capt. Greg McLean said the Community Library Network has decided to not allow Fredericks on library grounds and that he has been warned to stay away from schools.

"We picked up two juveniles at his house and it wasn't long and he'd picked up another boy," McLean said.

Fuhr said the alleged comments were to both male and female minors of a variety of ages.

"He told one young man that he looked athletic and cute," Fuhr said. "There was also a little girl who was climbing the fence to go talk to him. It didn't matter the sex or age - he was targeting kids."

Fuhr said Fredericks reportedly had candy to hand out.

Registered sex offenders are prohibited from being on school grounds unless it's an event for their own children and they have permission from the school superintendent, Fuhr said.

Fredericks has had 10 previous bookings in the local jail since 1995, including for DUI, driving without privileges, battery, failure to register as a sex offender and possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia.