A man in Arizona was arrested earlier this week after he allegedly faked his personal loss of life to keep away from registering as a intercourse offender, in response to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Benjamin Hollins, 50, who was initially convicted as a intercourse offender greater than 20 years in the past in California, was arrested on Tuesday after officers with the Chandler Police Division positioned him dwelling at a house in Mesa, Arizona, underneath a false id.
The sheriff’s workplace didn’t say why police had been in search of him or how they got here throughout him.
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Hollins was dwelling in Arizona Metropolis by 2018 and had did not register as a intercourse offender exterior of California, in response to a put up by the sheriff’s workplace on Fb. He was additionally working as a behavioral well being counselor.
Throughout that job, Hollins kidnapped and tried to molest a 16-year-old consumer. He was sentenced to supervised probation after taking a plea deal, which required him to register as a intercourse offender yearly.
He didn’t observe by means of with the requirement and tried to pretend his personal loss of life in October 2023, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
A girl, who has not been recognized, advised police she witnessed Hollins take his life by leaping off the bridge on the Theodore Roosevelt Lake Dam between Gila and Maricopa counties.
“Plenty of assets had been wasted in search of his physique, which was clearly not discovered as a result of he wasn’t useless,” Sheriff Mark Lamb stated.
Hollins’ intercourse offender registration lapsed when he was “useless,” in response to the sheriff’s workplace, and when he was present in Mesa, he was dwelling with a household with younger kids.
The household had “no concept about his historical past,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote.
Lamb defined Hollins’ arrest in a brief video posted to Fb on Thursday.
“Good attempt, Benjamin. We discovered you. You are not useless. We’re gonna maintain you accountable,” Lamb stated within the video.
Hollins is scheduled to be in courtroom on Tuesday.