{"id":227197,"date":"2026-03-19T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:50:09","slug":"registered-sex-offender-taken-into-custody-at-oakland-city-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227197\/","title":{"rendered":"Registered sex offender taken into custody at Oakland City Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Gibson County Sheriff\u2019s Office officials say a a registered sex offender of Somerville after entering Oakland City Primary School on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a press release, East Gibson School Corporation School Resource Officer Donna Huber alerted officers that 47-year-old Branden Willis had entered the office area of the school around 10:47 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Willis was taken into custody and transported to the Gibson County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is being charged with Unlawful Entry of School Property by a Serious Sexual Offender.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Branden Willis\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/G5OXOZ7B3VGWNNNNNHELC5XAUE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"544\" \/>Branden Willis(Gibson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Gibson County Sheriff\u2019s Office officials say a a registered sex offender of Somerville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8617,143,145,144,8618],"class_list":["post-227197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-8617","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-wspix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}