According to Investigator Charles Mulherin, Richmond County Sheriff’s Office investigators are currently seeing a sex offender who has recently absconded supervision of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. The subject is identified as 33-year-old Rico Renaldo Ready.

According to Investigator Charles Mulherin, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) is looking for an absconded sex offender. While on a surprise address verification, investigators with the RCSO Sex Offender Unit learned that Anthony Eugene Crawford had absconded.

Prison officials say convicted sex offender, John Evander Couey, on death row for kidnapping, raping and burying a Florida girl alive has died of natural causes.

Richmond County Sheriff’s Office received information that an absconded sex offender was living in downtown Augusta. Vandus Derrell Robinson, 32, was convicted in Georgia in 1996 of sexual assault. Robinson is an absconder from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. UPDATE: According to Captain Steve Morris, of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, Robinson turned himself in on Friday.

Richmond County Sheriff’s Office investigators are searching for a sex offender. While on a surprise address verification, investigators learned that that Ernest Waldo Avery was not living at the address he registered.

A registered sex offender, known for challenging Georgia’s sex offender law, is wanted by Columbia County investigators. Investigators discovered 29-year-old Wendy Whitaker is no longer living at the address where she’s registered. UPDATED: WJBF News Channel has learned that Wendy Whitaker was arrested late Monday afternoon by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

A Greer man has been arrested by Greenwood Police and charged with indecent exposure after officers say he exposed himself in a shopping center parking lot, twice. Investigators say 36-year-old Michael Jay Rogers has been busted before for the same thing in the Upstate.

A woman who was suing the state of Georgia over the sex offender laws, has been arrested on drug charges.

A suspicious fire has burned down a Florida mobile home where 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped and murdered four years ago this month. The crime by a repeat sex offender prompted lawmakers in Florida and other states to pass Jessica’s Law, a set of stricter rules for tracking and convicting sex offenders.

A 29-year-old Columbia County woman who is the face of a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s crackdown on sex offenders will be allowed to stay in her home through Thanksgiving.
   

According to Lt. Michael Frank, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) holds a warrant for the arrest of a Jackson man, who failed to register as sex offender and failed to notify ACSO of his change of address. Thomas R. Rhoden Jr., 34, of the 5100 block of Trotter Court, inJackson, South Carolina, will be charged with Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.