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April 15th, 2008, 03:35 PM
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LA PORTE - La Porte police arrested a convicted sex offender Friday after he allegedly attempted to speak to an underage girl in defiance of the terms of his parole.
Police said Merrill James Powers, 31, approached a teenage girl at a convenience store Tuesday and said things that bothered her. She went to Indiana's online sex offender registry and identified him through his description, despite the fact he gave her a fake name, said Capt. Clyde Crass, La Porte Police chief of detectives.
"(She) felt compelled to do her own research," Crass said. Along with her family, she filed a report with the proof of his sex-offender status.
Powers was convicted in 2000 in Madison County, Ind., of rape, two counts of criminal deviate conduct and sexual battery. He was released March 15, moved to La Porte and found a job, Crass said. It is unknown why he came to the city, he said.
http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=12210&TM=37603.43
Kudos to the girl and her family.
LA PORTE - La Porte police arrested a convicted sex offender Friday after he allegedly attempted to speak to an underage girl in defiance of the terms of his parole.
Police said Merrill James Powers, 31, approached a teenage girl at a convenience store Tuesday and said things that bothered her. She went to Indiana's online sex offender registry and identified him through his description, despite the fact he gave her a fake name, said Capt. Clyde Crass, La Porte Police chief of detectives.
"(She) felt compelled to do her own research," Crass said. Along with her family, she filed a report with the proof of his sex-offender status.
Powers was convicted in 2000 in Madison County, Ind., of rape, two counts of criminal deviate conduct and sexual battery. He was released March 15, moved to La Porte and found a job, Crass said. It is unknown why he came to the city, he said.
http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=12210&TM=37603.43
Kudos to the girl and her family.