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Beulah Man, A Former School Custodian, Sentenced To Prison For Trying To Lure Child For Sex
August 20, 2026
A Beulah man who was working as a school custodian has been sentenced to state prison this week for trying to lure a child for sex.
Chad Lane Wren, now 57, was charged in October 2025 by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with soliciting or luring a child to engage in sexual conduct. After pleading no contest this week, he was sentenced to 36 months in prison with credit for 249 days served. He was also sentenced to five years of probation and designated as a sexual offender.
He was ordered to have no contact with any minor following his release.
According to court documents, he arranged to meet who he believed to be a 14-year-old for sex, but the person was actually an FDLE agent. “I prefer younger,” he texted, according to FDLE.
Additional charges of traveling to meet a child for obscene purposes and using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony were dropped.
Wren resigned from his position as a custodian at Blue Angel Elementary School on the day of his arrest.
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