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Patrick Wayne Bell
Police: Sex offender cut off tracking bracelet
(CNN) -- Authorities are looking for a sex offender from Florida who remains missing after removing his ankle tracking bracelet and fleeing his mother's house.
Patrick Wayne Bell, 39, a convicted sexual predator, completed his prison term last month and was living under supervised release at a motel in Greenacres, Florida, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
It is unclear when Bell left the hotel, but Miller said the bracelet was re
moved Tuesday. It is a felony for a sex offender to change residence and not inform police.
"This guy knows he's going back t
o prison," Miller said. "We consider him to be more dangerous."
Florida defines a sexual predator as either a repeat sexual offender, a sexual offenders who uses physical violence or a sexual offender who preys on children.
Bell was not living at his mother's house in Riviera Beach because it is near a day care center, and laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 1,000 feet from areas like parks and schools.
A state database on sex offenders indicates Bell was convicted in 1999 of fondling a child under 16 and sexual battery on a child under 12.
In another case, St. Lucie County officials said a sex offender who had cut off his bracelet and fled turned himself in Thursday.
Jimmy James Felder, 37, complet
ed h
is prison sentence and got his tracking bracelet Saturday. He cut off the device Monday and fled, authorities said. Felder had been convicted of lewd and lascivious assault on a 14-year-old.
Four days ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
signed the Jessica Lunsford Law, named after a girl whom police said a sex offender admitted to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing in February.
Authorities have charged John Evander Couey with capital murder, burglary with battery, kidnapping and sexual battery on a child younger than 12 in Jessica's abduction and death.
The Lunsford Law, which goes into effect September 1, is an attempt to tighten Florida's sexual predator law. The legislation mandates lifetime monitoring of some offenders, and makes it a crime to knowingly harbor a sexual predator who flouts reporting requirements.
**************
Da po' nigga misses hims mammy.
T.N.B.
Patrick Wayne Bell
Police: Sex offender cut off tracking bracelet
(CNN) -- Authorities are looking for a sex offender from Florida who remains missing after removing his ankle tracking bracelet and fleeing his mother's house.
Patrick Wayne Bell, 39, a convicted sexual predator, completed his prison term last month and was living under supervised release at a motel in Greenacres, Florida, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
It is unclear when Bell left the hotel, but Miller said the bracelet was re
moved Tuesday. It is a felony for a sex offender to change residence and not inform police.
"This guy knows he's going back t
o prison," Miller said. "We consider him to be more dangerous."
Florida defines a sexual predator as either a repeat sexual offender, a sexual offenders who uses physical violence or a sexual offender who preys on children.
Bell was not living at his mother's house in Riviera Beach because it is near a day care center, and laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 1,000 feet from areas like parks and schools.
A state database on sex offenders indicates Bell was convicted in 1999 of fondling a child under 16 and sexual battery on a child under 12.
In another case, St. Lucie County officials said a sex offender who had cut off his bracelet and fled turned himself in Thursday.
Jimmy James Felder, 37, complet
ed h
is prison sentence and got his tracking bracelet Saturday. He cut off the device Monday and fled, authorities said. Felder had been convicted of lewd and lascivious assault on a 14-year-old.
Four days ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
signed the Jessica Lunsford Law, named after a girl whom police said a sex offender admitted to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing in February.
Authorities have charged John Evander Couey with capital murder, burglary with battery, kidnapping and sexual battery on a child younger than 12 in Jessica's abduction and death.
The Lunsford Law, which goes into effect September 1, is an attempt to tighten Florida's sexual predator law. The legislation mandates lifetime monitoring of some offenders, and makes it a crime to knowingly harbor a sexual predator who flouts reporting requirements.
**************
Da po' nigga misses hims mammy.
T.N.B.
