Filed last week in Monroe County Circuit Court, Thomas A. McDaniel, 68, of Waterloo, was charged with three counts of failure to register vehicles as a sex offender (truck, trailer and motorcycle) plus one count of child sex offender in a school zone following a July 1 incident at Waterloo High School.

McDaniel was arraigned Friday and entered a plea of not guilty to all charges. He was issued a preliminary hearing date of 10:30 a.m. Aug. 12.

According to the Illinois State Police sex offender registry, McDaniel is a lifetime registrant with a prior conviction in Missouri for predatory criminal sexual assault in which the victim was 10 years old and he was 48 when the crime was committed in 2005.