A retired school principal and 911 dispatcher was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Thursday after admitting he tried to meet two teen boys for sex in Palm Beach County.
Dennis D. Blake, 64, who recently retired to Delray Beach from southern Indiana, was arrested in January after showing up at a Boynton Beach Mall restaurant for a sexual encounter with what he thought was a 15-year-old boy.
Blake did not realize the person he had contacted on the online Grindr service was an undercover city police officer posing as a minor.
After Blake's arrest, agents from Homeland Security Investigations found evidence on his cellphone that he had also tried to meet a real teen, who he thought was 16, for sex in December.