(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted rapist — who is registered as a sex offender in Perkins — has admitted he was living at his brother’s house in Cushing across the street from Harrison Elementary School without notifying law enforcement.
Jerald Lemons, 59, who listed his address in his written guilty plea Friday as 918 W. Freeman, Lot 39, in Perkins, was also fined $50 as part of a plea bargain for two years’ probation.
Lemons was released from prison in 2003 after serving about half of a seven-year prison term for first-degree rape by instrumentation in Garvin County in 1999, state Department of Corrections records show.
Last August, he was originally charged with the crime of unlawful for sex offender to reside within 2,000 feet of a school.
His charge was amended in January by prosecutor Tyson Branyan to the crime of unlawful for a sex offender to reside for seven consecutive days in a community without notifying law enforcement — to which he pleaded guilty Friday.
Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit that the department received information that Lemons — a sex offender registered with the Sheriff’s Department with a Perkins address — had been living at a house in the 700 block of S. Steele Avenue in Cushing for about four months.
“A vehicle was located parked next to the house, and when the license plate number was run, it came back to a Jerald Lemons with the same address out of Perkins,” the affidavit said.
Utilities at the Cushing house were listed in his brother’s name, the affidavit said.
On Aug. 11, 2011, at about 7:22 a.m., Cushing Police Officer Bill McCarty and the detective went to the residence and talked to Lemons’ brother, who said that Lemons was sleeping and invited them into the house, Harp’s affidavit said.
“A short time later, Jerald came out from the bedroom where I talked to him. I told Jerald that we received information that he was living at the house, and he said that he had been staying there for the past four days, but still lived in Perkins,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“I told Jerald that we had information that he had been staying there for the past four months, and he said no. Jerald said that he comes over to his brother’s house often, but has only been there for the past four days,” which his brother also said, Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“It should be noted that Harrison Elementary School is located directly across the street from where Jerald has been staying,” the affidavit said.
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