A 22-year-old man who was found last fall to be enrolled as a student at White Bear Lake High School while faking his age as 17 is now facing felony charges in connection to the deception.
Kelvin Micaiah Luebke was charged by summons on Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court with two counts of aggravated forgery and forgery through use of a false foreign birth certificate to enroll in the school, all felonies.
Charges describe that Luebke was adopted from Liberia in 2009, at age six. He was primarily homeschooled but attended Forest Lake High School for a period of time. Luebke was eventually expelled for behavioral issues and went to live with another couple for approximately four years at age 18, his adoptive father told police.
Luebke admitted to investigators that he had two birth certificates, one from Minnesota with a birth date in May 2003, and one he had obtained later from Liberia with the help of his birth family, which listed a birth date of May 2007, and an alternate name of Kelvin Ciatte Perry, Jr., which he used to enroll in White Bear Lake High School.
Luebke told investigators that the couple he was living with were unaware that he had enrolled in the high school for the 2025-2026 academic year. Luebke said he enrolled as an “unaccompanied minor” under the federal McKinney-Vento Act, which requires schools to immediately enroll youth who present as homeless, even if eligibility is in dispute.
Identity discovery
A warrant affidavit filed last October following the revelation that Luebke had been fraudulently attending the school stated that “numerous teen girls … had contact with Luebke and were concerned about his advances.”
The affidavit detailed that Luebke had made contact with girls as young as 14, many through Snapchat. In most of the White Bear Lake High School cases, the girls had rebuffed Luebke’s advances and other requests to hang out and get rides home.
The affidavit indicated that, as of last fall, there were ongoing investigations into Luebke’s potential sexual involvement with girls under age 16.
Luebke’s actual age came to light through public arrest records involving a probation violation in an indecent exposure case, wherein Luebke had sent a nude image to a 15-year-old over Snapchat. Luebke is facing a probation revocation hearing in that case, with an upcoming hearing on April 21.
Luebke was also charged in January with violating a harassment restraining order, which media have reported is connected to making contact with a 17-year-old girl whose parents had filed a restraining order against Luebke on her behalf.
Luebke, whose current address is listed as a homeless shelter in the city of Anoka, Minn., is not currently in custody, and a hearing date is not yet listed in court records for the new forgery charges.
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