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Courtesy: Lee County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n
FORT MYERS, Fla. – A sex offender who skipped a Fort Myers court date was caught in Cuba trying to avoid charges in America, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
According to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Worden Bourn, a registered sex offender, was arrested in December 2025 after a missing juvenile was found intoxicated on his sailboat.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Bourn gave the juvenile drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n
READ: Sheriff Grady Judd blasts media reports that he criticizes federal mass deportation efforts: ‘Simply not true’<\/a><\/p>\n After his arrest, members of the Sexual Offender & Predator charged him with four sex offender violations after doing a detailed review.<\/p>\n In February 2026, a warrant was issued for Bourn\u2019s arrest after he skipped a scheduled court date.<\/p>\n The fugitive warrants unit with LCSO learned he bought a new boat and planned to escape to Costa Rica.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n On February 26, 2026, Cuban officials came in contact with Bourn in Cuban waters.<\/p>\n They said Bourn claimed his boat ran out of fuel and asked for help to continue his trip.<\/p>\n READ: Florida woman accused of shooting sleeping boyfriend, tried dismembering him and burying remains in yard: BCSO<\/a><\/p>\n He was detained on outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n On Monday, members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force got Bourn from Cuba and returned him to the United States.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Bourn was booked in the Miami-Dade County Jail, awaiting extradition to Lee County. Upon his return, Bourn will be charged with additional sex offender violations for leaving the country.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Lee County Sheriff’s Office FORT MYERS, Fla. – A sex offender who skipped a Fort Myers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-195498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}