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Convicted sex offender Scott Edwin Razor, who taught martial arts and rape-prevention classes for a living, was arrested at a Seal Beach athletic club.

The 22-year-old Santa Ana resident was convicted of aggravated sexual assault in Texas in 1984 and was wanted on a warrant from that state charging him with violating probation, said Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Richard J. Olson.

At the time of his arrest--shortly before his 7:30 p.m. martial arts class at Rossmoor Athletic Club last Thursday--Razor had a pair of handcuffs taped to his lower leg and was carrying a security badge. He told authorities that he worked as security manager in Orange County for a large department store chain. That claim--and one that he was a former sheriff’s deputy--proved to be false, Olson said.

Razor had pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony involving an assault on an 11-year-old boy and served six months in a Texas prison before being released in 1985, said Craig Spence, Razor’s attorney in the sexual assault case. He had been placed on 10 years probation and now faces up to 10 years in prison for violating that probation, Spence said.

Razor was scheduled to conduct a March 28 rape-prevention clinic at the club that would have been run with help from the Seal Beach Police Department, according to Stephen Ellis, club owner. Ellis said he did not check the man’s background when he began working at the club last January.