Sex offender compliance check leads to four arrests in Lowndes County
Investigators with Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office expect to arrest at least six people following its regular address compliance check on registered sex offenders living in the county.
Alabama orders ‘chemical castration’ of some child molesters
Some Alabama sex offenders who abuse young children will have to undergo “chemical castration” while on parole, under a new law, but the requirement has prompted legal concerns and appears to be rarely used in some states that allow it.
Marshals comb North Miss. for sex offender compliance
Law enforcement knocked on more than 100 doors in Lowndes County over the last two weeks as part of a county-wide address compliance check on registered sex offenders.
Repeat pedophiles: Treatment for child sex offenders may offer solution to recidivism
Less than three months after Lowndes County resident Raymond Karr was released from prison for touching a child for lustful purposes, he was arrested again on four counts of the same charge.
Lowndes Sheriff’s Dept. conducts sex offender check
A compliance check conducted Wednesday by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Marshal Service shows the vast majority of convicted sex offenders in the county are living at their registered addresses.
Police: GPS helped solve, didn’t deter killings
GPS technology helped police link two convicted sex offenders to the rapes and killings of at least four women in California, but the mother of one victim said Tuesday that the monitoring system should have done more to prevent the crimes in the first place.
Senate Bill would make unregistered sex offenders wear GPS device
The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would make unregistered sex offenders wear GPS tracking bracelets and require local governments to notify the public when offenders move to their neighborhood.
Police looking for two for failing to register as sex offenders
U.S. marshals and the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office are searching for two convicted sex offenders wanted for failing to register with the state’s sex-offender registry.