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• Sex offender stabs officer, escapes in Texas

  February 12, 2013 12:14 PM

  MIAMI (AP) - A manhunt is under way for a prisoner convicted in two violent sexual assaults who stabbed one of two police escorts and escaped in the Dallas area as he was being transferred from Florida to Nevada. Police said Tuesday that 42-year-old Alberto Morales somehow obtained a sharp... more »

• Pueblo police search for fugitive sex offender

  November 2, 2012 12:10 PM

  PUEBLO - The Pueblo Police Department is asking the public to be alert and quickly report a fugitive. Robert Ilae, 40, is a registered sex offender and has open felony warrants for kidnapping, assault and menacing. Ilae is described as being approximately 5' 5" tall, 205 pounds with black... more »

• Sex offenders slipping through the cracks

  August 4, 2012 1:32 AM

  Sex offenders are manipulating their identities to slip through the cracks of law enforcement; a new study funded by the United States Justice Department shows about 16 percent of them are living secretly among us. It's also a problem here in Colorado Springs. About 1,100 registered sex offenders are... more »

• South Korea to chemically castrate child sex offender

  May 24, 2012 12:55 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says it will chemically castrate a convicted serial child sex offender in its first use of such a punishment. The Justice Ministry said Thursday the 45-year-man will get an injection aimed at inhibiting sexually violent impulses Friday. A psychiatric test concluded he is... more »

• Who tracks homeless sex offenders?

  August 31, 2011 8:30 PM

  There are 48 transient or homeless registered sex offenders in El Paso County, but law enforcement doesn't have to know where they are. Colorado law is unclear about what requirements homeless sex offenders have, or how law enforcement has to keep track of them. While some agencies do more... more »

• Sex offender uses dumpster as legal address

  May 4, 2011 12:38 PM

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Albuquerque authorities arrested a homeless man for failing to notify them that he moved out of the trash dumpster he listed as his address. KOB-TV reports Charles Mader is a convicted sex offender and is required to give the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department a physical address.... more »

• Dozens of agencies unite to look for sex offenders

  June 11, 2010 3:49 PM

  The U.S. Marshal is looking for Front Range sex offenders with the help of more than 80 state, local and federal agencies. The project is called "Operation Shepherd 2010." "'Operation Shepherd 2010' combines our law enforcement resources to more effectively identify, locate and arrest fugitive sex offenders that fail... more »

• Gov. Ritter vetoes sex offender bill

  May 21, 2010 5:43 PM

  Gov. Bill Ritter has vetoed a bill regulating the sex offender management board, saying the legislation went too far by allowing convicts to choose their own treatment programs. Ritter says the bill did not have an adequate hearing before it was adopted and would weaken the program. The governor says... more »

• NJ mom IDs census worker as sex offender

  May 20, 2010 6:34 PM

  Census workers have been hitting the streets, but how much attention are you giving to the person coming up to your door? A sex offender has been charged with using a fake name and someone else's Social Security number to get a job as a Census canvasser in New... more »

• Sex offender who attacked a Colorado Springs woman sentenced to life

  May 14, 2010 9:14 PM

  SAN DIEGO - A sex offender convicted of killing two teenage girls in San Diego County has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. John Albert Gardner cried Friday as the girls' families took turns at the podium addressing him during his sentencing hearing in... more »

• Students track alleged bus groper

  May 7, 2010 6:26 PM

  Los Angeles schoolgirls have been complaining for months to deputies patrolling transit lines about a man who allegedly had fondled, groped and felt them up while they road buses to and from school. Deputies have been searching high and low for the man. Thursday morning the manhunt ended... more »

• Registered sex offender missing in Pueblo

  April 5, 2010 7:13 PM

  The Pueblo Police Department has put out an alert for Michael William Kasan, a registered sex offender who walked away from a group home in the 1900 block of Toronto on the south side of the city on Sunday. Kasan has a mental disability and is on medication. ... more »

• Sex offender charged in Chelsea King case

  March 3, 2010 6:00 PM

  A 30-year-old sex offender has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old San Diego County girl who vanished after heading off for a run in a park. Prosecutors say John Albert Gardner III also faces a special allegation of rape or attempted rape, and a count of assault with intent... more »

• Sex offender ordered off CSU campus

  February 2, 2010 11:01 AM

  A sex offender living in an on-campus apartment at Colorado State University has been ordered to leave. Twenty-one-year-old Thomas "TJ" Skillman has to leave the apartment by the end of the week. He's been living with his girlfriend and their child in the CSU-owned University Village apartments. Skillman is not... more »