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FARMINGTON — A Davis School District bus driver was arrested Tuesday after investigators say he believed he was meeting up with a 13-year-old girl for sex when he dropped off a sports team at a school.
Jordan Lee Chase, 31, was booked into the Davis County Jail for investigation of enticing a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, and 10 counts of dealing in materials harmful to minors.
Investigator Bryan Purdy said school wasn't out yet, it was around 2 p.m. when officers took Chase into custody.
Purdy, working for the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking task force, said he posed as a 13-year-old girl online and began receiving messages from Chase in August 2023. "The adult male identified himself as a 30-year-old male from Ogden and was told the age of the female was 13 years old numerous times over the course of the conversation," according to a police booking affidavit.
Over months, Chase is accused of sending more than 10 explicit videos and photos of himself. Chase — who started driving a bus for elementary, junior high and high school students in Oct. 2020 — was observed "driving by the school multiple times in his own personal vehicle in an attempt to locate the minor female," the affidavit alleges.
Chase told the "girl" he was a school bus driver and made arrangements to meet her Tuesday "for the purposes of having sex" when he dropped off the visiting team at the school, the affidavit states. Officers arrested him after he arrived.
Davis School District released a statement Wednesday saying it is "shocked" by the arrest and that "such behavior runs absolutely counter to everything the district represents. The district will continue to do everything it can to protect all students, and completely supports and will cooperate with any law enforcement investigation regarding the matter."
They said all new district employees are fingerprinted when they are hired and undergo a background check.
