Category Archive for : ‘TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Newsday/Don Thompson, Gillian Flaccus 4/16/14 Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45, both registered sex offenders, were both wearingankle bracelets when they raped and killed at least four women.  The discovery of one woman’sbody, Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, 21, on a conveyor belt at an Anaheim trash-sorting plant last monthwas the key to breaking the case.  Authorities were confident that there was at least a fifthvictim and perhaps more.  Each man was charged with four felony counts of specialcircumstances murder and four felony counts of rape.  The disappearances in Santa

kdvr.com/Stephanie Wolf 2/28/14 Eric Hartwell, a 51 year old registered sex offender, who escaped earlier in February, wastaken into custody by the US Marshals Service in Norfolk, Virginia on Friday.  Hartwellescaped from a Denver halfway house on February 21 after reportedly cutting off his ankle monitorand both Colorado and federal law enforcement authorities had been searching for him ever since. Hehas been on parole through Colorado since December 20 for failing to register as a sex offender andwas on probation with federal law enforcement for previous sex crimes.  In 1991

Newsday/Laura Figueroa 3/14/14 Dozens of registered sex offenders living in Suffolk County provided inaccurate addresses inthe year since county lawmakers passed a law to intensify monitoring of the ex-convicts, and morethan 140 others were found to have violated rules requiring them to update their photos on a stateregistry.  Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, contracted by thecounty last year to monitor more than 900 registered sex offenders, told lawmakers yesterday thatthe increased scrutiny has led to an increase in arrests for violating state reportingrequirements.  It’s not necessarily

Newsday/Robert Brodsky 2/15/14 Nassau County is moving to hire a private consultant, Stony-Brook based Parents for Megan’sLaw, to intensify monitoring of registered sex offenders, including tracking their posts on socialmedia and creating a smartphone app the public can use to report potential violations such as newallegations of abuse.  The program, similar to one established last year in Suffolk County,calls for stepped-up enforcement of requirements that convicted sex offenders accurately registertheir current address with the state.  Parents for Megan’s Law would be charged with ensuringthat offenders’ addresses, work information and photographs

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

Newsday/Kevin Deutsch 11/24/13 New York State has lost track of 467 convicted sex offenders, including rapists and childmolesters, despite a law requiring them to register annually for inclusion in the Megan’s Lawdatabase.  At least 15 sex offenders whose whereabouts are listed as unknown by the state’sDivision of Criminal Justice Services, which is responsible for maintaining the Sex Offender Registry, had their last known addresses on Long Island, where a total of 1,523 offendersare registered.   We’ve established a law that requires society’s most cunning of criminals to register on anhonor system,