Sex Offender Is Arrested
Lemonth D. Reaves, a registered sex offender in Jasper County, is incarcerated in the Jasper County jail after he failed to register his information with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office as required by law.
The original charge Mr. Reaves was convicted and served time for was child molestation. Under state law, once a sex offender is released from prison he or she is required to register with the local sheriff’s office and then re-register each year on their birthday, or anytime they change their place of residence or employment.
A new law took effect July 1, which requires convicted sex offenders to register within 72 hours of their birth date. However, Mr. Reaves’ case fell under the old law which allowed the sex offender a 10 day grace period after their birth day for registration.
Mr. Reaves was scheduled to register on June 17, therefore his grace period expired on June 27. After this date, investigators from the JCSO visited his residence of record only to find he was no longer there. Also, they checked with the Georgia Crime Information Center and found that he had not registered with another sheriff’s office, nor had he registered out of state.
Consequently, an arrest warrant was issued for Mr. Reaves charging him with failing to register as a sex offender, a felony. Mr. Reaves was picked up Tuesday evening in DeKalb County.
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In other crime news, Antoni Lydell Nix and Richard Neal Jackson have both been charged with burglary and theft by taking.
Early on Friday, June 30 it was discovered that persons unknown to the Earth Pak Company in Shady Dale, had entered their building and used a forklift to take heavy metal parts.
While in route to the burglary call at Earth Pak, a deputy from the JCSO spotted a truck with trailer both loaded with scrap metal parts. The deputy stopped the truck, whose passengers were Mr. Nix and Mr. Jackson, and solved the crime before ever arriving at the scene.
In other crime related activity, the JCSO reported the following arrests for the period June 26 through July 3:
•Tony Lamar Ross, Monticello—disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property.
•Timothy Bo Reese, Eatonton—habitual violator, driving on a suspended or revoked license.
•Shakela Shontae Jackson, Monticello—Magistrate Court Bench Warrant.
•Adrian Jamal Brown, Monti-cello—disorderly conduct.
•Jessie Christian, Monticello—driving on a suspended license.
•Raymond Ernest Ryles, Sr., Monticello—criminal trespass.
•Michael Thomas Brownlee, Dawsonville—BUI, failure to obey regulatory markers.
•Tara Lynn Phillips, Covington—hold for warrant in Gwinnett County.
•Jose Adolfo Ramos, Jonesboro—taking game fish with illegal methods, possession of illegal fish.
•Raul Aparicio, Morrow—taking game fish with illegal methods, possession of illegal fish.
•Santos Paniagua, Riverdale—taking game fish with illegal methods, possession of illegal fish.
•Jose Armando, Riverdale—taking game fish with illegal methods, possession of illegal fish.
•Dominique Bunard Evans, Eatonton—failure to stop at stop sign, obstruction of an officer, fleeing and attempting to elude law enforcement, driving on a suspended or revoked license.
•Jonquavis Deshon Dumas, Monticello—no license and obstruction of an officer.
•Efrain Ortiz, Newborn—driving while unlicensed and speeding.
