The arrests occurred Thursday morning, Feb. 18, and five of the suspects posted bail later that morning.
TRENTON -- City police arrested nine people recently for failing to register under Megan's Law, Trenton police said.
The arrests occurred Thursday morning, Feb. 18, and five of the suspects posted bail later that morning, police records show.
Arrested were:
- James Stiffey, 59, of the 1400 block of Riverside Drive
- Dana Fields, 55, of the 700 block of West State Street
- Sylvester Williams, 50, of the 100 block of Cleveland Street
- Frederick Thompson, 51, of the 700 block of Riverside Drive
- Tiffany Poole, 34, of the 700 block of Edgewood Avenue
- Ernest Ellis, 41, of the 200 block of Dickinson Street
- Dawraine McBride, 39, of the first block of Sanford Street
- Nyewah Sunday, 20, of the 600 block of New Willow Street
- Gerald Woodall, 43, of the first block of Cain Avenue
Once convicted of certain sex crimes, offenders must comply with registering with authorities under Megan's Law - named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka of Hamilton, slain in 1994 by a sex offender who lived across the street.
The efforts of her parents, Maureen and Richard Kanka, led to passage of Megan's Law.
In the 20 years since New Jersey adopted Megan's Law, a 2014 report found, an average of 240 sex offenders a year are convicted of failing to register an address from one New Jersey residence to another, according to a study commissioned by the state Administrative Office of the Courts.
That's out of a total of more than 15,000 registered offenders in New Jersey, according to the study.
As of December, nearly 844,000 people were registered sex offenders in the United States, according to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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