DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia State Police says a sex offender who had failed to register with the Virginia Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry has turned himself in.
45-year-old Charlton Leemon Evans of Dinwiddie County turned himself into VSP on Thursday morning. VSP had announced they were searching for him on Wednesday afternoon.
Tips about sex offenders may be left on the registry’s website at www.sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov . Tips can be left anonymously.
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