Crime & Safety

Sex Offender Wanted by Forsyth Sheriff's Office

A convicted sex offender, whose last known address is in northeast Forsyth County, is wanted for failing to register.

A man who failed to register as sex offender and violated his probation is wanted by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office.

Curtis Joe Motes, 27, is required to register annually as a convicted sex offender, but failed to do so last month, according to Deputy Courtney Beal Spriggs, public information officer of the FCSO.

Motes, whose last known address is 5774 Adrian Lane in Gainesville (northeast Forsyth County), was convicted of child molestation in 2006 in Hall County.

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If you have information on Motes' whereabouts, call 770-781-3087 or the CrimeStoppers anonymous tip line at 770-888-7308.

Convicted sex offenders (any individual who has been convicted of a criminal sex offense in any state or territory) must register once a year with local law enforcement, providing accurate information about where they work and live, according to Georgia law. If registration information provided to the sheriff’s office is inaccurate or the offender has moved without notifying the Sex Offender Unit, then the appropriate legal actions are taken against the offender, as in the case with Motes.

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In March, the newly formed Pro-Active Community Enforcement (P.A.C.E.) Unit and the Sheriff’s Office Reserve Unit began to conduct regular visits to the home address provided by sex offenders at the time they registered.

Sheriff Duane Piper said these home checks are done as a service to the community.

"We are adding checks to verify that self-reported information from offenders is correct," he said.

At the moment there are 113 sex offenders who are required to register in Forsyth County, 18 of them are in jail.


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