{"id":393849,"date":"2026-09-08T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393849\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:19","slug":"jso-arrested-59-sex-offenders-during-operation-riverwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393849\/","title":{"rendered":"JSO arrested 59 sex offenders during Operation Riverwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested 59 registered sexual offenders and predators this summer for violating the terms of their release, the agency announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The arrests came out of Operation Riverwatch, a joint effort between JSO\u2019s Offender Tracking Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service conducted from June 15 to Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">During the operation, JSO said detectives logged more than 230 man-hours and carried out 535 checks on registered offenders and predators across Jacksonville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The checks led to 59 arrests of people who violated conditions required of them following release from prison or jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Those arrested were:<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Davis, 41Carson Evans, 58Thomas Smith, 58Karim Daniels, 49Adrain Johnson, 44William Lane, 50Mandel Rhodes, 48Kawane Wilson, 46Abdul Mushari, 70Antonio Gilmore, 60Geoffrey Aguilar, 54Malcon Anderson, 61Phillip Ansell, 76Christopher Bass, 36Maurice Bing, 40Joseph Brooks, 50Christopher Cloer, 50Shontae Cooper, 52Jordan Daniels, 21Derrick Drye, 62Michael Eady, 43Lavane Eleby, 64Thatcher Gates, 49John Guidry, 63Willie Harvey, 62Bryce Johnson, 24Henry Lewis, 48Justin Little, 46Eugene Lofton, 55 Luis Lorenzo, 37Aundra Maxwell, 62Michael Nelson, 67Jason Newell, 48Mitchel Norman, 43Nolan Pearson, 67Tiffany Ramos, 53John Reyle, 46Tommy Rosado, 57Robert Simoneau, 28Carlton Singletary, 46Alvin Smith, 59Edward Taylor, 51Patrick Trottie, 52Richard Tucker, 55Jermaine Tyler, 50Reginald Waiters, 64Clinton Walker, 39Robin Walker, 61Christopher Warnock, 54Christopher Williams, 50Eddie Williams, 37Mark Williams, 42Alan Womack, 59James Wood, 58Donald Jones, 72Justin Kent, 36Michael McCoy, 29Christopher Morrison, 45Billy Smith, 46<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Under Florida law, registered offenders must comply with strict requirements intended to protect the public. Depending on the violation, noncompliance can result in felony charges and additional registration requirements, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The sheriff\u2019s office is asking anyone who suspects an offender or predator is violating their requirements to call 904-630-0500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested 59 registered sexual offenders and predators this summer for violating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,1415,349,157173,11374,157172,157174,27135,350,23688,346,345],"class_list":["post-393849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-northeast-florida","tag-operation-riverwatch","tag-predators","tag-registered-sexual-offenders","tag-sex-offender-compliance","tag-sex-offenders","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-u-s-marshals-service","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393849","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=393849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}