An Arizona man convicted of sexual abuse in Iowa 15 years ago has been charged with threatening an Iowa legislator over a requirement in the state’s sex offender registry law the he register in Arizona, where he has lived since 2016. According to a federal complaint, Cody Ray Leveke, 36, had been communicating with state …
A registered sex offender in Missouri was arrested on Wednesday, months after he allegedly raped his daughter’s friend at his home. James Michael Reed, 44, was arrested at his job and charged with rape and sodomy for the alleged June 30 incident. Police began their investigation after the victim was hospitalized and claimed Reed sexually …
More than a dozen registered sex offenders in Wisconsin are unaccounted for after they tampered with or removed their GPS monitoring devices, officials said. Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections made the startling revelation in response to WMTV’s inquiry about Brandon King, 31. King’s accused of removing his tracking device hours after his August 6 release from …
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Colorado’s sex offender registration violated the rights of three sex offenders—possibly resulting in sweeping implications as to how the public gets the list. The Denver Post reports that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch determined that the Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act violates the cruel and unusual clause of …
A 14-year-old Texas boy may have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life after having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend, the teen’s attorney alleged. Joseph Gutheinz, the child’s lawyer, told the Houston Chronicle that his client was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. The girlfriend was …
