A 24-year-old Venezuelan man has been accused of posing as an unaccompanied minor to a case school official at Ohio high school, known as "highly unusual and deceptive."

Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra, who had been attending Perrysburg High School for more than a year in January last year, was arrested on felony for forgery charges, school and police officials said Tuesday.

The Perrysburg Police Department said in a statement that Labrador, a former member of the school's joint venture football and swimming team, used fraud documents during the admission process.

The district described the allegations as “heartbreaking” and said employees and local families were trying to support someone.

Labrador is scheduled to appear in Wood County court on Tuesday. It is not clear whether he has a lawyer speaking on his behalf.

Labrador portrayed himself as an unaccompanied minor when trying to attend the area and was enrolled on federal and state requirements for students without legal guardians or homelessness, the Perrysburg School said in a statement.

The district said at the time, he provided documents showing that immigration authorities gave him temporary protected status and the juvenile court granted custody to a family in Fort Persey.

Labrador also has an Ohio driver's license and Social Security card, the statement said.

The region claims that the documents are forged.

His guardian contacted the school last week that they had obtained information that he was a 24-year-old adult, and the administrator met with Labrador, who denied the allegation and said the birth certificate he provided during his enrollment was accurate.

Labrador was ordered to stay away from school reasons, and officials investigated the allegations and reached out to local police, the statement said. The district said the school’s investigation found social media posts from people who claimed to be real families in Labrador.

“The case involves highly unusual and deceptive circumstances that affect many local, state and federal agencies,” the district said. “The district has reviewed actions on enrollment rates and is confident that it can follow appropriate legal channels to support itself as an unaccompanied minor, as set out in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Homeless Assistance Act.”

The law, passed in 1987, requires states to ensure that homeless youth have access to the same public education as other students.