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FOR POLICE, TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS CAN GET TRICKY (State law requires offenders to register their addresses. But when police go looking for them, sometimes they can’t be found.)
Tampabay.com/Robert Farley, Abbie Vansickle and Matthew Waite 4/3/2005 Registered sexual predator Norris Edward Ellinwood strolled out of jail in March 2004,promising officials he was headed to the People That Love Church and mission in St.Petersburg. Ellinwood, 52, convicted of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, nevershowed. When one of his victims called the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office to find out if hewas still behind bars because she heard he might be in the area, she was told that officials haveno idea where he is. Ellinwood is one of