Crime Report
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Cops find sex offender who gave false address

TAVERNIER -- Deputies pulled a 23-year-old sex offender out of a closet where he was hiding on Saturday, reports say.

Francis Augustino Mercede was charged with failure to register as a sex offender and resisting arrest.

Mercede was convicted in 2005 of having sexual intercourse with a minor in Sukol County, Pa., and was jailed in Monroe County jail thre...

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