Full Notification

On 06/11/2015 just before 6:00 pm local time, wanted registered sex offender Jack Edward Miller Jr. was located and apprehended near Lodi, California located in San Joaquin County by the US Marshals Service Eastern District of California. Miller had been the subject of a joint fugitive investigation conducted by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and the US Marshals Service. On 05/22/2015, an arrest warrant was issued for Miller charging him with failure to register as a sex or violent offender following a Sheriff’s Office investigation into allegations that Miller failed to report a change in location. Miller subsequently fled Indiana and Sheriff’s detectives reached out to the US Marshals Service Northern District of Indiana Sex Offender Investigations Coordinator Senior Inspector William Boothe for assistance in locating Miller. Through joint investigative efforts between Steuben County Sheriff’s detectives and the US Marshals Service, Miller was located in California. Miller was taken into custody without incident and is now the subject a federal investigation into possible violations of the federal sex offender registry law known as the Adam Walsh Act. Miller was also wanted by the Indiana Department of Correction Parole Board for allegedly violating his parole and had another arrest warrant out of Steuben County for failing to appear in court on an unrelated misdemeanor offense. The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank all those who assisted with providing tips and information.

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