St. Paul Reporter

There were 26 less registered sex offenders living in Ramsey County in May compared to the previous month, according to the Minnesota Public Registrant Search.

There are 75 sex offenders registered in Ramsey County in May, compared to 101 the month before.

The Registry shows five of these sex offenders are sexual predators. In Minnesota, convicted predatory offenders also are subject to certain mandatory sentencing laws that are designed to minimize their chances to re-offend.

Minnesota legislation about sex offenders and predators is currently being evaluated and revised, such as if offenders with good behavior can be removed from the Registry.

Frequently updated information about sex offenders in Minnesota can be found online here.

Offender	Crime	Crime description
Clifton Butch Taylor	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Clifton Taylor (age the age of 17) engaged in sexual contact with a known male child. Contact included penetration. Taylor used his position of authority to gain compliance.
Allan Kingsley Kerr	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping	Allan Kerr engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Kerr approached victim in a public place, forced her into his vehicle, and drove to another location. Kerr used force and threats to gain compliance.
Brian William Meger	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Brian Meger has a history of sexual contact with both known and unknown female children. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Meger gained access to one female by approaching her in a public setting. Force was used to gain compliance.
Rashad Jutaun Taylor	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Rashad Taylor, at the age of 21, engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Force was used to gain compliance.
Thomas Kelly Downs	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Offender has a history of sexual conduct with minor female victims(age 3-14). Conduct included window peeping and indecent exposure in one offense pattern and fondling and penetration in another offense pattern. Offender was known to one victim and not known to another victim.
Ronald Edward Abshire	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Ronald Abshire has a history of sexual contact with a known female child and known female teen. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Force has been used to gain compliance.
Tyrone Appleton	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Offender engaged in sexual contact with victims (2 adult females). Contact included penetration. Offender entered victims' home without permission and used force and a weapon to gain compliance. Offender was not known to victims.
Jache St John Ashley	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Ashley engaged in sexual conduct and contact with an unknown adult female. Conduct included indecent exposure and soliciting sexual contact. Contact included penetration. Ashley gained access by approaching her in a public place and asking for a ride. Ashley gained compliance by implying that he had a weapon.
Phillip Jay Blodgett	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree (2 counts), criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	From ages 20 through 22 Phillip Blodgett engaged in separate incidents of criminal sexual conduct against; a known, adult female victim and two unknown female victims, one adult and one teen-aged. Blodgett gained access to the known, adult female by entering her home while she was sleeping. He gained access to the unknown adult female while she was in a parking lot in the early morning hours. He gained access to the teen-aged victim after she approached him asking for a cigarette which he provided her along with alcohol for a number of hours.
Joshua Allen Branville	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Branville has a history of sexual contact with known female children and teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Force has been used to gain compliance.
Scott Edward Cannady	Possession of pornographic work involving minors	Cannady has a history of possessing pornographic images of unknown males and females (toddler through pre-teen).
Antwone Nawone Ford	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Antwone Ford engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager on multiple occasions. Contact included penetration.
Aaron Carl Gilbertson	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, patrons; prostitutes; and housing individuals engaged in prostitution; penalties, solicitation of children to engage in sexual conduct; communication of sexually explicit materials to children, kidnapping	Offender attempted to lure victims into a car (female, age 6) bribing them with treats and money. Offender also approached victims (female, age 11 & 13) in a public place and offered them money for sex acts. Offender was not known to victims.
Rickey Harris	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Rickey Harris has a history of sexual contact with known adult females. Contact has included penetration and sexual touching. Harris used force and threats to gain compliance.
Thure John Holmberg	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree, predatory offense, non-MN statute	Thure Holmberg has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known female teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Conduct included Holmberg asking for sex.
James Timothy Javner	Possession of pornographic work involving minors (2 counts), criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, predatory offense, Michigan statute	James Javner has a history of sexual contact with known female children. Contacts included sexual touching, exposure, and viewing pornography in front of victims.
Tijuan Donte Johnson	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Tijuan Johnson engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Johnson gained access to victim by entering her residence without permission. Compliance was gained through use of a weapon, threats, and restraining victim's boyfriend.
John Franklin Knudson	Kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Offender has a history of sexual conduct and contact with female victims (age 7-adult). Conduct has included asking for sexual contact. Contact has included fondling and penetration. One victim was vulnerable due to developmental disability. Offender used physical force, a weapon and a chemical irritant to gain compliance. Offender was known and not known to victims.
Jason Michael Lenarz	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Offender has a history of sexual contact with minor males and females (age 5-17). Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Offender was known to victims.
Yia Lor	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Offender has a history of sexual contact with minor female victims (age 5-10). Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Offender was known to victims.
Michael Jerome Milton Jr.	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	Offender has a history of sexual contact with juvenile female victims (age 8-14). Contact includes penetration. Offender was known to victims.
Bryan Dale Purdom	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Offender has a history of sexual contact with victims (females, age 16-adult). Contact included sexual touching and exposure. Force and threats were used to gain compliance. Offender was known to victims.
Torrance Lee Royster	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, kidnapping	At age 22, Torrance Royster engaged in sexual contact with a known female adult. Contact included sexual touching. Force was used to gain compliance.
Joseph Alan Schaffer Sr.	Kidnapping, false imprisonment	Joseph Schaffer has a history of physically assaulting and holding known adult females against their will. Schaffer used force, threats, and weapons to gain compliance.
Kevin Ervin Thorin	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Beginning at the age of 27, Kevin Thorin has a history of engaging in sexual contact with known female adults. Contact included penetration. Thorin used force to gain compliance.
Joshua Dean Trester	Possession of pornographic work involving minors, predatory offense, non-MN statute	Joshua Trester has a history of possessing child pornography.
Da Neng Vang	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Offender has a history of sexual contact with adolescent female victims (age 15-16). Contact included penetration. Offender gained compliance through physical force, holding victims against their will, and use of accomplices. Offender was known and unknown to victims.
Sia Vang	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Sia Vang engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Vang provided teenager with drugs and alcohol prior to offense. Vang used force, accomplices, and took advantage of teenager's vulnerable state to gain compliance.
Gilbert Vela	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Gilbert Vela engaged in sexual contact with a unknown male teenager. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Force was used to gain compliance. Vela gained access to victim by approaching him in a public place.
Christopher Dee Walter	Possession of pornographic work involving minors	Offender has a history of possession of child pornography. Offender was not known to victims.
Terry William Wilson	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, possession of pornographic work involving minors	Offender engaged sexual contact with victims (male & female, ages include a 9 yr. old). Contact included sexual touching. Offender was also found to have thousands of child pornographic images. Offender's relationship with victims is unclear.
Joseph Eugene Davis	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Joseph Davis has a history of sexual contact with unknown adult females. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Davis used physical force to gain compliance, and gained access by offering assistance or approaching them in a public setting.
Dwight David Ford	Kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Dwight Ford engaged in sexual contact with a known adult female. Contact included penetration. Physical force was used to gain compliance. Ford also held three known adults (two males, 1 female) against their will. Threats, physical force, and a weapon were used to gain compliance. Ford gained access to victims while in custody.
William Genesis Smith	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, non-MN statute for predatory offense	William Smith has a history of engaging in sexual contact with unknown adult females. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Force was used to gain compliance.
Yeng Vang	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree (3 counts)	Vang has a history of sexual contact against known female teenagers and adults. Contact included repeated acts of penetration. Vang gained access by taking them to an isolated location. Force, threats, and accomplices were used to gain compliance.
Robert Michael Benike	Possession of pornographic work involving minors	Robert Benike engaged in sexual conduct and contact with a known female child. Conduct included showing her pornographic material. Contact included sexual touching. Benike used his position of authority to gain compliance. Benike also possessed child sex abuse images.
Antoine Milton Booker	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Antoine Booker engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female child. Contact included sexually touching and penetration. Booker gained access at a social gathering and took advantage of her vulnerable state to gain compliance.
Markeith Branch	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping	Markeith Branch engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Branch gained access by flagging down her down, forcing himself into her vehicle, and ordering her to drive to a remote location. Force and threats were used to gain compliance.
Jeremy Vernon Breezee	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Jeremy Breezee engaged in criminal sexual contact against a teen-aged, adult female whom he had just met. Contact included penetration. Breezee used friendliness and sincerity to gain trust. He then had the victim accompany him in his vehicle to another location. At that location Breezee used force, violence and threats of serious bodily harm to gain control.
Rufus Brown Jr.	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Rufus Brown engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Brown provided victim with alcohol and took advantage of her vulnerable state to gain compliance.
Richard Allan Bushway	Sexual psychopathic personality, sexually dangerous	Richard Bushway has a history of engaging in sexual contact with known adult females. Bushway has used force, threats, and violence to gain compliance.
Billy Joe Chapman	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Billy Chapman engaged in sexual contact with a known adult female. Contact included penetration. Force was used to gain compliance.
Thomas Michael Chilefone	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Thomas Chilefone engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager. Contact included penetration. Chilefone used physical force and forced victim to drink alcohol in order to gain compliance.
Corey Lee Claflin	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Corey Claflin engaged in sexual contact with a known female child. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Claflin used his position of authority and manipulation to gain compliance.
Jeramie George Corbett	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	At age 18, Jeramie Corbett engaged in sexual contact with a known female child on more than one occasion. Contact included penetration. Corbett used his position of authority to gain compliance.
Herman Duquon Curry	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree (2 counts)	Herman Curry has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known female children. Conduct has included exposure. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Curry has used threats and his position of authority to gain compliance.
James Nicholas Dahlager	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	James Dahlager engaged in sexual contact with a known female child. Contact included sexual touching.
Mark Ray Davis	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Davis engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Davis approached her in a public setting and asked for a ride. Force, a weapon, and restraints were used to gain compliance.
Evul Condio Demarz	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	At age 19, Evul Demarz AKA Eric Gates engaged in sexual contact with two known female children and one known female teenager. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Manipulation and coercion were used to gain compliance.
Thomas Ray Duvall	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Thomas Duvall has a history of engaging in sexual contact with unknown female teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Duvall has gained access by asking to use their phone, offering a ride, and coercing them into his home. Force, threats of bodily harm, and weapons have been used to gain compliance.
Robert James Gibbs	False imprisonment, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Robert Gibbs engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager and a known female child on separate occasions. Contact included sexual touching. Gibbs gained access by approaching one victim on the street, offering assistance, and having her accompany him to another location. Force has been used to gain compliance.
Eugene Paul Glaraton	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping	Eugene Glaraton engaged in sexual contact with an unknown male teenager. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Glaraton approached him in a public place and forced him to walk to an isolated location. Physical force, threats, and a weapon were used to gain compliance.
Antonio Edward Gonsor	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Antonio Gonsor engaged in sexual contact with a known adult female. Contact included penetration. Gonsor gained access while residing in the same building as victim. Force was used to gain compliance.
Robert Stanley Hakala	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Robert Hakala engaged in sexual contact with a known adult female. Contact included penetration. Hakala gained access by offering her a ride home. Force, strangulation, and threats were used to gain compliance.
Newton Wyatt Henderson	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping	Newton Henderson held an unknown male and female teenager against their will, transported them to another location, and engaged in sexual contact with the female teen. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Force and threats were used to gain compliance. Henderson gained access by approaching them in public and asking them for a ride.
Ge Her	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Ge Her engaged in sexual contact with two unknown female teenagers. Contact included penetration. Force and an accomplice were used to gain compliance.
Jammie Holliday	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Jammie Holliday engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Holliday used coercion and accomplices to gain compliance.
Bobby Earl Jefferson	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, kidnapping	Bobby Jefferson engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Jefferson used threats and force to gain compliance.
Matthew Antonio Johnson	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Matthew Johnson engaged in sexual contact with two unknown adult females. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Johnson gained access by meeting victims in a public place and bringing them to another location. Force and a weapon were used to gain compliance.
Richard Wayne Kemper	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Richard Kemper engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager on numerous occasions. Contact included sexual touching and penetration.
John Joseph Kramer	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	John Kramer has a history of sexual contact with a known female child and an unknown female teenager. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Kramer gained access to the unknown female teenager by approaching her in a public setting.
James Tacumseh Littlewolf	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	James Littlewolf engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager. Contact included penetration. Littlewolf gained access by entering the home where she was staying without permission.
Kevin Jacqui Magee	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Kevin Magee engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included sexual touching. Magee met victim in a public place and then forced her to accompany him to another location. Magee used physical force and a weapon to gain compliance.
Shannon Michael Miller	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Shannon Miller has a history of engaging in sexual contact with known female children and teens. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Miller used force to gain compliance.
Artez Lasalle Mitchell	Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree	Artez Mitchell engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Threats and force were used to gain compliance. Mitchell also has a history of assaultive behavior.
Leo Edward Perry	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Leo Perry has a history of sexual contact with known female toddlers and children. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration.
Christopher Nicholas Sonsalla	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	Christopher Sonsalla has a history of sexual contact with known female teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration.
Bennett Oliver Stukey	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Bennett Stukey engaged in sexual contact with a known minor female on multiple occasions over a period of years. Contact included sexual touching.
Andre Demond Tolefree	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree, kidnapping, false Imprisonment	Andre Tolefree engaged in sexual contact against a known female teenager. Contact included penetration. Tolefree used force and a weapon to gain compliance. Tolefree gained access to victim online. Tolefree also physically assaulted and held a known adult female against her will. Tolefree used a weapon to gain compliance.
Lee Edward Trealoff	Predatory offense, non-MN statute	Lee Trealoff engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Trealoff provided her with alcohol prior to offense.
Jeffrey Alan Truelson	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	Jeffrey Truelson has a history of engaging in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager and unknown female adult. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Truelson used force to gain compliance.
Joseph Upsher Jr.	Kidnapping, false imprisonment, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Joseph Upsher abducted two known adult females and held them against their will on separate occasions. Upsher engaged in sexual contact with one female. Contact included penetration. Upsher has used force, a weapon, and threats to gain compliance.
Theodore James Warren	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree	Theodore Warren (at the age of 19) engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager. Contact included penetration. Warren physically assaulted her and used force to gain compliance.
Russell Thomas Williams	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree (2 counts)	Russell Williams has a history of sexual contact with known female children. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Force and his position of authority have been used to gain compliance.
Brian Joseph Smith	Kidnapping	Offender engaged in sexual contact with an adult female victim, age 20. Contact included penetration. Force, threats and weapons were used to gain compliance. Offender also held victim against her will and transported her to another location. Offender was known to victim.