FL- Giant Sex Offender Photo Mounted On Pickup

5-21-2008 Florida:

BROOKSVILLE - Steve Wyatt's pickup is generally unremarkable, but there's a recent attachment that's earned it the nickname "sex offender mobile."

Not that he's the sex offender.

No, the two blown-up photos on either side of his truck are of his brother, Willard Wyatt. Along with the photos is an exact duplication of the brief information provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement about Willard Wyatt's status as a sex offender:

The out-of-state charge is 13-years-old. It was a sex offense with a minor.

Steve Wyatt says his mission is to bring awareness about all sex offenders and predators living in Hernando County. This isn't just about his brother.

But that's how it began.

"The laws aren't stiff enough on these people," he said.

Willard Wyatt doesn't have a listed phone number and couldn't be reached for comment.

Steve Wyatt said he invited his brother to live with him two years ago as a favor. Within days of Willard Wyatt's arrival from Tennessee, he announced he needed to register at the sheriff's office.

"What for?" Wyatt said he asked.

WA- 4 Women Harassed Following Internet Sex Hoax

11-5-2007 Washington:

SEATTLE -- Four women said that men have been showing up at their house following the posting of a fake ad on the Internet that suggested men should come there for sex, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

The roommates said that multiple men have come to their home, with the first man appearing at 2 a.m. one night.

The following night they said another man knocked on their door. The third night one man said he had come for a blind date with the roommates.

“He had a bottle of wine and he was dressed to the nines, so to speak, and I thought, ‘What is going on here’?” said one roommate.

The man said he saw a post on Craigslist.com. “I was drilling him, more or less. I asked him where he saw the ad, what was the title and what did it say?” another roommate said.

The women said they don’t know who posted the ad and that they can’t find it online.

CO- Man accused of harassing sex offender

5-9-2008 Colorado:

Public spectacle draws police

A registered sex offender who drives around town with a puppy in his lap and hangs out at schools, parks and soccer games has one man so unnerved he made a public spectacle of himself Wednesday morning outside the Battlement Mesa Activity Center.

Travis Metcalf made such a display that he was issued a citation by police for disorderly conduct after allegedly threatening a registered sex offender. He has a court appearance set for June 25.

Other witnesses to the outburst told attendants inside the activity center, 398 Arroyo Drive, to call the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department because a fight between two men was imminent, Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Tanny McGinnis said.

Metcalf said he was telling everyone that Timothy Alan Larsen, 62, of Battlement Mesa, is a registered sex offender.

Larsen was convicted of sexual assault on a child in 1997, spent seven years behind bars and is now a free man, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

FL- Man's sex offender info posted by neighbor

If lawmakers don't pass a law prohibiting secondary dissemination situations like this will lead to someone getting killed. Further, in Florida only the police are permitted to post information or pass out flyers about sex offenders. Of course, getting the police to act -in favor- of a registered sex offender -in Florida- is an absolute impossibility, even if it is law!

5-8-2008 Florida:

HOLT — Tensions have been high on Sundance Way after one neighbor posted a flyer of another, identifying him as a sexual offender.

A deputy on Saturday responded as tempers flared, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

A man said he was at home watching a movie when his friends told him his across-the-street neighbors had posted a sign on their privacy fence.

The sign was an 8 1/2-by-11-inch piece of paper with the man's sexual offender information from the Department of Corrections Web site, a deputy said.

The man claimed the sign was part of an ongoing feud and that "obscenities are regularly exchanged by the two feuding sides," the deputy reported.

Across the street, the neighbors involved refused to speak to the deputy and requested a supervisor. When a sergeant arrived, a woman affirmed printing out her neighbor's sexual offender information and posting it on her fence. She said the man's wife came near it, so she told her not to come on the property to touch the sign or else risk arrest. She said the man then arrived and told her "I don't give a [expletive]," tore down the sign and left.