Lakeport >> A man convicted as a sex offender was taken into custody after police discovered he had not registered as such.
Austin Dion Duncan, 25, remains at the Lake County jail on a no-bail hold facing multiple felony charges. He was initially contacted by the Lakeport Police Department (LPD) after they received a report on Monday of a resident who said there were problems with a subject staying off and on at a rental residence without authorization in the city, according to an LPD press statement. The reporting resident had reviewed the California Department of Justice (DOJ) Megan’s Law website and learned the subject was a public disclosure sex offender.
LPD officers conducted a background and records check on the Duncan who was registered as a transient sex offender in Ukiah. Officers also learned that Duncan was on felony Post Release Community Supervision with a search and seizure clause.
Due to the information developed LPD officers believed that Duncan was also staying in Lakeport on Sixteenth Street. Officers visited the residence to conduct a probation search and continue the investigation on Duncan’s registration status.
Duncan was at the residence and detained for further investigation. Officers determined that Duncan had a regular pattern of staying at the Lakeport residence over the past two months. With this, California law requires that he be registered in both Ukiah and Lakeport. Duncan had not previously notified LPD of his residence status, and he was arrested for felony failing to be properly registered as a sex offender and violation of PRCS. He was transported and booked into the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Wednesday morning, LPD learned that the Lake County District Attorney’s Office had filed a felony complaint against Duncan, charging him with failing to comply with California sex offender registration provisions along with enhancements for having a prior serious or violent felony conviction (lewd or lascivious acts) and two prior prison terms: out of Lake County Superior Court for a 2010 sex offense conviction, and out of Mendocino County Superior Court for a 2015 failure to properly register as a sex offender conviction.
If anyone has information on Duncan’s activities or residence status in Lakeport over the past few months, he or she is encouraged to contact LPD Officer Tyler Trouette by telephone at (707) 263-5491 extension 17, email at ttrouette@lakeportpolice.org. Persons can also send a private message to LPD on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Lakeport-Police-Department-176101292414821/?ref=settings or can provide information anonymously by texting, via cellular telephone, the word TIP LAKEPORT followed by your message to 888777.
