The Chatham County Sheriff's Department arrested John Kelly Lee Young, 39, on charges of violating sex offender registry laws in Georgia.
A background investigation conducted on a youth minister revealed the minister was a registered sex offender. The complete background check provided an NCIC alert which was quickly discovered in a background check.
Young moved here three years ago from Tennessee where he was a registered sex offender. He was working at St. Paul Academy for Boys and at Stout Chapel CME, where he served as a minister.
Young came to Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to obtain a background check required by St. Paul. The background check reveled Young was a sex offender in Tennessee. Investigators with the sheriff's department's sex offender registry team found that Young had not notified Tennessee he left and had not registered in Georgia.
Young was arrested and gave permission for his home to be searched.
Tennessee is seeking warrants for Young's leaving the state without notification.
The investigation is ongoing.
Authorities say the arrest and investigation are a great example of interagency cooperation between the sheriff's department and Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.
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