Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS APPREHENDED’

September 10, 2019
Kaylee Douglas
KFOR

OKLAHOMA CITY – On September 4, a Lexington man was minutes away from his sentence in a Cleveland County courtroom for sex crimes involving a child when he went out to his car and never came back; today, he is finally behind bars.
32-year-old Joseph Stephens was set to be convicted of two counts of forcible sodomy, and one count of lewd acts with a child last Wednesday.
He was out on bond and even showed up to court that day to receive his sentence, but just moments before

September 11, 2019
Danielle Battaglia
Greensboro

GREENSBORO — It was revealed in court Wednesday that the employee alleged to have improperly touched a minor at a group home for troubled youth — co-owned by Deputy Police Chief James Hinson — has a history of being accused of sex crimes with underage children.
On Monday, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office charged Richard Vernell Heath with one count of statutory sex offense and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, according to court records. Heath, 51, was arrested Tuesday and is facing life in prison

September 11, 2019
Danielle Battaglia
Greensboro

GREENSBORO — It was revealed in court Wednesday that the employee alleged to have improperly touched a minor at a group home for troubled youth — co-owned by Deputy Police Chief James Hinson — has a history of being accused of sex crimes with underage children.
On Monday, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office charged Richard Vernell Heath with one count of statutory sex offense and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, according to court records. Heath, 51, was arrested Tuesday and is facing life in prison

September 12, 2019
WMBF NEWS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Chair of the Citizens Review Board Henry Thomas Black Jr. was arrested in Myrtle Beach on sexual assault charges involving children, police said Thursday morning.

Black is accused of sexually assaulting two victims. The sexual assaults began when the victims were children and continued over a 22-year span, police say, between 1996 and 2018.

One of the victims, who is now an adult, reported Black to police on September 3. The second victim was identified and said she was also assaulted by Black.

Detectives obtained warrants

September 11, 2019
Alex Nitzberg

Border Patrol agents continue capturing convicted criminals who have previously been kicked out of the country. On Monday authorities apprehended a Mexican man with a record in Nevada who had been removed last year.
“Agents conducted records checks, which revealed that the man, later identified as Mauricio Moreno-Garcia, a 26-year-old Mexican national, was convicted of Sexual Lewdness w/Child less than 14 years of age in 2016 out of the state of Nevada. Moreno was sentenced to 24-60 months confinement for his conviction,” CBP reported.
The agency noted that he

September 11, 2019
WBRC

BLOUNT COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) – A 72-year-old Hayden man pled guilty Wednesday afternoon to multiple sex crimes that started when the victim was six years old, according to Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey.

Herbert Writesman pled guilty to the following charges: four counts of Rape in the first degree, four counts of Sodomy in the first degree, two counts of sodomy in the second degree, two counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of twelve, two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, two