FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Police took a fugitive, who was on the run for more than a year, into custody at a local library.
The U.S. Marshals helped track down Tyon Poindexter, a convicted sex offender in Cobb County who disappeared after he was released from jail in 2016.
He was supposed to register as a sex offender, but never did, according to investigators.
More than a year later, investigators tracked him down using a computer at the Fulton County Library.
According to court documents obtained by Channel 2's Chris Jose, a judge sentenced Poindexter to 2 1/2 years for failing to register as a sex offender.
Poindexter was released on time served and put on probation.
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“Our sex offender unit exhausted all leads and tips they had received and asked our fugitive unit and the U.S. Marshals to see if they could help locate Poindexter. That’s how we came to find him,” Glenn Daniels, with the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, said.
Jose learned that Poindexter gave the Sheriff’s Office a fake address, saying that he lived at a Cobb County motel. He then, once again, failed to register as a sex offender after he was released.
“Poindexter was utilizing the computers at the Fulton County library to contact potential victims on social media,” Daniels said.
The Sheriff's Office wouldn’t disclose the ages of the potential victims, but a spokesman told Jose that marshals had Poindexter under surveillance at the library.
“We possibly have saved a person or persons from becoming a victim of a crime,” Daniels said.
Deputies say Poindexter surrendered peacefully. He’s being held at the Cobb County Jail with no bond.
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