Two More Most Wanted Sex Offenders in Custody
Five of the State’s
Top Ten Most Wanted Sex Offenders Have Been Captured
October
22, 2008 — Two more of the state’s most wanted sex offenders, both of
them previously convicted of molesting children, are in custody after
one of them was recently arrested for robbery in Mexico City
and another turned himself in to a Superior Court Probation Department.
Massachusetts State Police had previously tracked
JELANI
BAKER, 28 (D.O.B. 11/2/79), to Mexico and advised United States
deputy marshals there of his possible whereabouts. Last week, State
Police were notified that BAKER was arrested by local police in
Mexico City for an alleged robbery.
Mexican
authorities learned of BAKER’s outstanding warrants for failure to
register as a sex offender, carrying a dangerous weapon, possession of
marijuana and lewd conduct, as well as his status as one of Massachusetts’ Top Ten Sex Offenders, and
began deportation proceedings. On Oct. 18, BAKER was deported from
Mexico and sent to New Jersey, where he is being held by Newark port authority
police. Members of the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive
Apprehension Section (VFAS) will go to New Jersey
in the near future to take him into custody and return him to the Bay State to answer to the charges.
BAKER
is currently wanted by Somerville Police for failing to register as a
sex offender, carrying a dangerous weapon, and possession of a class D
substance, and by Transit Police for lewd and lascivious conduct. BAKER
was previously convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child and
lewd and lascivious conduct, and was classified as a High Risk Level 3
offender by the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB).
Another
High Risk Level 3 sex offender,
WILLIAM E. HARVEY 3d, 43 (D.O.B. 9/18/65), surrendered Monday to the
Probation Department at Suffolk Superior Court. State Police believe HARVEY left his residence in Springfield on or around Oct. 9, the day the
state released and publicized its newest list of Top Ten Most Wanted Sex
Offenders. A Suffolk Superior Court clerk ordered him held on $500,000
cash bail for violating his probation from a previous conviction.
HARVEY was previously convicted of raping a
child and, in addition to his probation violation, is currently wanted
for failure to register as a sex offender and violating the Abuse
Prevention Act.
BAKER
and HARVEY are the fourth and fifth High Risk Level 3 sex offenders on
the current Most Wanted list to be taken into custody.
On Oct.
10, ERIC CONALTY, 38 (D.O.B. 2/ 10/70), was captured in
Lake Jackson, Texas, after local police were directed to his parents’
house by VFAS troopers and deputy US marshals. CONALTY is wanted on
warrants out of Essex County charging him with committing
unnatural acts with a child under 16 and failure to register as a sex
offender. He was previously convicted of indecent assault and battery on
a child and contributing to the delinquency of a child.
Also on
Oct. 10, SHAYNE SAMPSON, 48 (D.O.B. 3/1/60), turned himself in at
Clinton District Court. SAMPSON is wanted in
Worcester
County for violating
conditions of his probation from a prior conviction for indecent assault
and battery on a child under 14, disseminating obscene material to a
minor, and open and gross lewdness. He is also wanted by Clinton Police
Department for violating the Abuse Prevention Act and by the Worcester
Police Department for failure to register as a sex offender.
Another
High Risk Level 3 offender on state’s Most Wanted list, EDWARD BUENO, 34
(D.O.B. 2/26/74), was captured Aug. 28 in Portsmouth, Virginia, after an
investigation by the State Police VFAS, US Marshals, and authorities in
Virginia and Florida. BUENO was wanted in
Essex
County for fleeing the
state after his conviction for statutory rape and indecent assault and
battery on a child, and also for failure to register as a sex offender.
He has been returned to Massachusetts for prosecution.
State
Police and SORB released the state’s current Most Wanted Sex Offender
list earlier this month. In addition to the five who have been captured,
the list included these High Risk Level 3 offenders:
-
RYAN E. LOVELL, 24, previously convicted
for assault and battery on a child and currently wanted for failure
to register as a sex offender;
-
STEVEN M. COOPER, 41, previously convicted
of rape and
currently wanted for failure to register as a sex offender
and rape;
-
JOSE A. DAVILA, 38, previously convicted
of statutory rape and indecent assault and battery on a child and
currently wanted for failure to register as a sex offender and
trespassing;
-
ANGEL MARTINEZ, 42, previously convicted
of rape of a child, indecent assault and battery, and posing a child
in the nude and currently wanted for failure to register as a sex
offender, statutory rape of a child, and posing a child in the nude;
and
-
ANTHONY D. SIMMONS, 38, previously
convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child and currently
wanted for failure to register as a sex offender and violating his
probation from his previous conviction.
The
list can be viewed at
www.mass.gov/msp/wanted/sexoffenders/wanted-sexoffenders.htm.
