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A convicted sex offender is behind bars again after Greene county detectives nabbed him in an internet sex sting. Police say 36-year old Roy Faux had been trying to contact several teenage girls via Facebook and cell phone texts. The parents of a Pleasant Hope teenager called police who started textinbg Faux back using the girl's identity. Detectives arrested Faux when he came to an arranged meeting with what he thought would be a 14 year old girl. he is charged with attempted enticement of a child.

The Missouri Supreme Court has sided with two sex offenders who challenged laws barring them from handing out Halloween candy and living within 1,000 feet of schools and child care centers. The high ruled 4-3 on Tuesday that the restrictions cannot be applied to those whose offenses came before the laws were enacted. The constitution bars laws adding new punishments or responsibilities for past actions. The Supreme Court combined two cases argued in 2009. In one, a central Missouri sex offender was charged after a law officer saw a woman handing out candy from his house.

UPDATE: Marshals say Lester Gideon was captured this weekend, thanks to a tip called into the Polk County Sheriff's department. Gideon was then transferred to the Greene County Jail. He was being held Monday on a $5,000 bond. This is the eighth captured fugitive featured on KSPR's Marshals Most Wanted series. Original story below.   SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service are seeking information on the location of Lester Ray Gideon, II, a convicted sex offender they say has failed to register as a sex offender.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The United States Marshals captured a convicted sex offender who was on the run for nearly five months. Bobby Sue Aguirre was convicted in several counts of molesting her own son in 2004, and since then has pleaded guilty to several other crimes. Aguirre spent several years behind bars for the molestation conviction and then moved to Springfield. KSPR News featured Aguirre in the weekly Marshals Most Wanted series in December. The Marshals caught up with Aguirre after she apparently contacted a woman in Wyoming about a Craigslist scam.

A registered sex offender is suspended from Baptist Bible College because he is facing his third charge for exposing himself. In Greene County, Nathaniel D. Miltenberger is charged as a prior offender with sexual misconduct. He is free on bond and banned from several department store parking lots. When Miltenberger moved to Springfield for college two months ago, he was required to register in Greene County as a sex offender. Springfield police say the twice convicted offender committed a similar crime again in Springfield.    A woman leaving Marshalls on Monday with her infant noticed a man parked next to her van. “He was exposed sitting in the front seat,” Springfield Cpl. Matt Brown said.

Update: The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has reason to believe lifetime registered sex offender Matthew Mallory and his teenage niece, Ariel Mallory, may be headed to Missouri. It is also possible Matthew Mallory will look for work on a chicken farm. The two left Kingfisher County Wednesday.  Law enforcement believes Matthew is armed and should be considered dangerous. A warrant for his arrest has been issued for child abandonment. If anyone recognized either of the Mallory's, please contact the OSBI at 1-800-522-8017.

A fugitive sex offender has been arrested in Boone county, Arkansas. County investigators and federal marshals say they received information indicating  Terry Garrison, may be residing in northern Boone County.  Garrison had warrants out for him for felony criminal threat and failure to register as a sex offender. He was a fugitive for 15  months. On Tuesday, Boone County Investigators and the federal marshals developed more specific information on Garrison's whereabouts and say they ultimately located Garrison on remote property with limited access, near Bear Bottom Drive in northern Boone County.  Garrison was taken into custody without incident and faces additional charges.

Greene County deputies arrested a very unusual looking suspect over the weekend. They arrested 36 year old Michael Campbell, a Colorado native and convicted sex offender. Deputies say he was busted for coming within 500 feet of a playground or public pool. Campbell was booked into the county lockup Sunday and later released. Campbell's face and neck are completely covered in tattoos. The art includes tattoos of Frankenstein, a spider and a bow tie. Previous mugshots from 2003 show only a couple of tattoos on his face.

A Branson woman who left her children along with a sex offender is going to prison for eight years.. The Taney county prosecutor says multiple state agencies had told 29 year old Veronica Davis to keep her three children away from the registered sex offender. Instead, the prosecutor says Davis  married Robert Nelson, then left the children with him for several months while she left the area. During that time, Nelson sexually abused Davis' two daughters, both of them under the age of ten. A Christian county jury found Nelson guilty of sexual abuse last year.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The U.S. Marshals are searching for Robert Allen Turner, a sex offender who repeatedly violated his probation.  He's now on the run. Turner was the maintenance man at the apartment complex where the victim and her mother were living. Like a predator, 45-year old Turner watched his victim.  Deputy Marshal Darren Lane said, "They moved into a new apartment complex and one evening in 2004 Mr. Turner showed up at the victim's door.  Her mother was out of town unfortunately for the evening.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Missouri legislators debated big changes over sex crimes. Representatives recommended legislation that would affect the sex offender registry and change the state's definition of rape. Alice Beauchamp sat in a room with sun streaming on her face. The quiet woman had her hands clasped on her lap. Occasionally, her cross necklace reflected glimpses of the sun on her face. Softly, she told a story about a lifetime of abuse. It was her story. "I was raped when I was 18 and then I was raped several times, actually 10 times all together and abused for like 27 years," she said.

An Ozarks sex offender and convicted felon is behind bars again, facing new charges less than two weeks after he posted a quarter million dollar bond. Wayne H. Files Sr. of Lebanon is now being held without bond, charged with four new counts of sexually exploiting a minor and possession of child pornography. Court records show prosecutors charged him with sexual misconduct and child exploitation last year. Files was behind bars for about 14 months before bonding out just a few weeks ago. He was convicted of forcible sodomy in 1991 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The Laclede County Sheriff says 40-year old Tammy Morgan took her 21-month old granddaughter without the mother's permission. Court documents say Morgan took the baby to a house where two sex offenders live. They also say she was so drunk she passed out. When officials arrived, they found the baby playing with a pocket knife. The sheriff says they arrested the grandmother and when they made contact with the baby's mother, they realized she had a drug related warrant. Officials arrested the baby's mother as well.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ar -- Even though there's still snow on the ground, state park rangers are gearing up for the tourist season. In Arkansas, those rangers will have to follow a new law designed to guard some areas of the park from sex offenders. Act 39 prohibits registered offenders from entering a swimming area or children's playground contained within an Arkansas State Park. The Baxter County Sheriff likens the new law to closing loopholes, since the registered sex offenders are still allowed in the park.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The United States Marshals captured a convicted sex offender who was on the run for nearly five months. Bobby Sue Aguirre was convicted in several counts of molesting her own son in 2004, and since then has pleaded guilty to several other crimes. Aguirre spent several years behind bars for the molestation conviction and then moved to Springfield. KSPR News featured Aguirre in the weekly Marshals Most Wanted series in December. The Marshals caught up with Aguirre after she apparently contacted a woman in Wyoming about a Craigslist scam.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A convicted child molester is on the run from United States Marshals. Terry Jones has a habit of not showing up for court appearances, and he's been convicted three times for failing to register as a sex offender three times in Greene County, Missouri. Jones was originally arrested in December, 1991 for molesting a 12-year old girl in Richmond, Indiana. He pleaded guilty to that crime in 1997. He eventually moved to Springfield, Missouri and began registering in Greene County in September, 2009.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A new bill introduced today would allow some sex offenders to request to be removed from the lifetime sex offender registry. There are more than 21,000 registered offenders on the registry. Offenders are required to register every 90 days.   A representative from Kimberling City wants to allow some offender to be removed from the registry, based on a three tier system: Tier I The first tier would have the lowest risk sex offenders. These are criminals least likely to re-offend like those convicted of indecent exposure.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Domestic violence plagues the Ozarks. Many safe houses can't spare a bed because demand for service is so high. Nationally, domestic abuse affects one in three women and one in four men. Springfield police point to domestic assault as the main reason aggravated assaults in the city jumped 20 percent from 2011 to 2012. For more than a decade, Debrah endured brutal beatings and rape. The one who promised to love her forever, her husband, did the most harm. "I was sure that he was going to kill me. I wouldn't survive very much longer; he was going to kill me. I didn't know when," said Debrah.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo - A Webb City lawmaker is now backing down from a bill he filed requiring real estate agents to warn others when their client is a sex offender. But, the bill already has raised more than just eyebrows in the Ozarks. Republican Charlie Davis says he intended to spark discussion about protecting children. He says he focused first on real estate agents because they are generally involved whenever new people move into a community. Cass Williams is a seasoned realtor in the Ozarks.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The U.S. Marshals are searching for Robert Allen Turner, a sex offender who repeatedly violated his probation.  He's now on the run. Turner was the maintenance man at the apartment complex where the victim and her mother were living. Like a predator, 45-year old Turner watched his victim.  Deputy Marshal Darren Lane said, "They moved into a new apartment complex and one evening in 2004 Mr. Turner showed up at the victim's door.  Her mother was out of town unfortunately for the evening.