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Megan's Law Website Helps Nabs Sex Offender
May 7, 2008, 7:26 PM PDT
California's Megan's Law website is being credited with helping to capture a registered sex offender who approached a 15-year-old girl near her Riverside home.It happened on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at about 10:30 a.m., near the intersection of Campbell and Crest avenues. Police say John Dee Edward Everage drove up beside the girl on her way to school and asked her to get in his car. When she refused, he persisted, and even pulled his car into a nearby driveway to continue propositioning the girl. The girl reported the incident to her parents and police but there was little to go on. On Friday, May 2, one of the mother's co-workers recommended a look at the state's Megan's law web site -- a database of registered sex offenders living in California communities. Entering their locality, the victim located the name and photo of the suspect and reported what they found to police. Everage, is registered as a high-risk sex offender. Coordinating with the Riverside County SAFE (Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement) Team and Parole, Riverside Police discovered that Everage had a GPS ankle bracelet, monitored by California State Parole agents. Data on the monitoring system corroborated the girl's story about the suspect's location and actions at the time of the incident she reported. Detectives arrested the 31-year old Everage later that day at his construction site workplace in Chino, for parole violation and attempted kidnapping for the purpose of sexual assault. Copyright © 2008, KTLA More Coverage   
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