There are 90 sex offenders registered in Ramsey County in December 2022, compared to 84 the month before.
The Registry shows seven 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.
Registered sex offenders in Ramsey County as of December 2022
Offender | Crime | Crime description |
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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 by entering her residence without permission. Compliance was gained through use of a weapon, threats, and restraining victim's boyfriend. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Terrell James Buechner | Predatory offense, non-MN statute | Terrell Buechner has a history of sexual contact with known and unknown females (teen through adult). Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Force has been used to gain compliance. Buechner gained access to unknown adult female by approaching her in a public place. |
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. |
Steven Lee Odelius | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Steven Odelius engaged in sexual contact against two unknown male children. Contact included sexual touching. Odelius gained access by approaching them in a public place. Odelius used manipulation to gain compliance. |
Terrell Antoine Coleman | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Terrell Coleman engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. Coleman gained access by approaching her on public street. Force and threats were 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. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Ronald Edward Abshire | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the first 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Devito Lydon Lenow | Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Devito Lenow has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known male and female children. Conduct included exposure. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Shannon Michael Miller | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second 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. |
Joshua Parrish Payne | Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Joshua Payne engaged in sexual contact against an unknown adult female. Contact included touch. Payne accessed the victim by approaching her in a public space. Payne used social pressure, repeatedly asking the victim questions to create confusion and anxiety in an effort to gain control. |
Marshall Edward Simon | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, predatory offense, non-MN statute | Marshall Simon has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known male and female children. Conduct has included exposure. Contact has included sexual touching. Simon gained access to one child while they were under his care, and another at a social gathering. |
Antwan Lamar Westbrook | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree | At age 18, Antwan Westbrook engaged in sexual contact with a known female teenager on more than one occasion. Contact included penetration. Westbrook used attention and affection to establish a relationship of trust. This relationship allowed him to gain and exploit unmonitored access. |
Phillip Jay Blodgett | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree (2 counts) | Phillip Blodgett has a history of sexual contact with known and unknown female teenagers and adults. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Physical force and threats have been used to gain compliance. Blodgett gained access to one female by approaching her in a public setting and another by entering her home without permission. Blodgett provided one female with alcohol and took advantage of another's vulnerable state 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. |
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. Ford used attention and affection to gain and exploit unmonitored contact. |
Steven Loren Mehsikomer | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Steven Mehsikomer has a history of engaging sexual contact with known female teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Mehsikomer took advantage of one victims vulnerability to gain compliance. |
Benjamin Lee Merriman | Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree | Benjamin Merriman engaged in sexual contact with a known female child. Contact included penetration. Merriman used his position of authority to gain compliance. |
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. |
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. |
Matthew Charles Manahl | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree | Matthew Manahl has a history of engaging in sexual contact with known female children and teenagers. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Manahl has used force and took advantage of at least one victim's vulnerable state to gain compliance. |
Brent Murray Spafford | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Brent Spafford, at the age of 19, engaged in sexual contact with a known female child on multiple occasions. Contact included penetration. Spafford used force and took advantage of the child's vulnerable state to gain compliance. |
Jesse Curry Jr. | Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree (2 counts), criminal sexual conduct in the third degree | Jesse Curry has a history of sexual contact with known female teenagers and adults. Contact included penetration. Curry gained access to them at a social gathering and took advantage of one female's vulnerable state. Force and threats were used 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. |
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. |
Lavern Robert Spann | Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree | Lavern Spann at age 36 engaged in multiple incidents of sexual contact against a known, teen-aged female over a period of years. Contact included penetration. Spann used his relationship of trust to attain and exploit unmonitored access. He used manipulation and coercion in an effort to maintain control. Following this conviction, Spann's DNA was collected and connected him to prior sexual assaults from 1993 and 1995. The assaults were against adult female victims, unknown to him. Contact included penetration. In these offenses, Spann gained entry to each victim's apartment. He used force, violence and threats of serious harm in his efforts to maintain control. |
Anthony James Bulmer | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Anthony Bulmer engaged in sexual contact with a known female child on multiple occasions over an extended period of time. Contact included sexual touching. Bulmer used his relationship of trust exploit unmonitored contact. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
James Timothy Javner | Possession of pornographic work involving minors (2 counts), criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, predatory offense, non-MN statute | James Javner has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known female children and teenagers. Contact included sexual touching. Conduct included making sexually explicit comments, showing them pornography, and exposure. Javner also possessed child sex abuse images. |
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. |
Bryan Dale Purdom | Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Bryan Purdom has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known female teenagers and adults. Conduct has included exposure. Contact has included sexual touching. Force and threats have been used to gain compliance. |
Timothy Lee Staten | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree | Timothy Staten and accomplice engaged in sexual contact with two known female teenagers on numerous occasions. Contact included penetration. Staten gained access after they ran away from their foster home and met him at a motel. Threats were used to gain compliance. |
Shah Quran Ehassan Aziz | Kidnapping, solicitation, inducement, and promotion of prostitution, sex trafficking | Shah Aziz has a history of kidnapping and sexual contact with known female teenagers and adults. Contact included penetration. Physical force and weapons were used to gain compliance. |
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 took advantage of one female's vulnerable state, and has used force and threats to gain compliance. |
Gentry Jamez Johnson | Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Gentry Johnson engaged in sexual contact against an unknown adult female. Contact included sexual touching. Johnson accessed the victim while she was at her residence and took advantage of her vulnerable state to gain compliance. |
Gregory Jones | False imprisonment | Gregory Jones held an unknown, adult female against her will. Jones accessed the victim while she was in a public restroom. He used physical force in an effort to maintain control. The victim's call for help lead to bystanders entering the restroom, causing Jones to flee. |
Davonte Alexander Lambert | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree | Davonte Lambert engaged in sexual contact with an unknown female teenager. Contact included penetration. Lambert provided her with drugs prior to offense. |
Daniel James Lovell | Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Daniel Lovell engaged in sexual contact against a known, teen-aged female. Contact included penetration. Lovell used his relationship of trust to attain and exploit access. He used surprise and the victim's disoriented state in an effort to maintain control. |
Lamont Tarrence McGee | Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, kidnapping | Lamont McGee engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included penetration. McGee gained access by approaching her in a public place and forcing her to accompany him to another location. Force and an accomplice were used to gain compliance. |
Wallace Lynn Moore | Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree | Wallace Moore has a history of sexual conduct and contact with known and unknown male children. Conduct included exposure and masturbating in victims' presence. Contact included sexual touching. Moore approached one male in a public place and offered assistance. |
Joseph Carl Nelson | Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree | Joseph Nelson engaged in sexual contact with an unknown adult female. Contact included sexual touching and penetration. Nelson gained access by entering victim's room without permission. Nelson took advantage of victim's vulnerable state and used force 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. |