Local authorities recently arrested two men on charges they failed to properly register as convicted sex offenders, including one who was allegedly living too close to a school.
Court records indicate Dothan police arrested Michael James Luke, 45, of Greentree Avenue, and charged him with a felony violation of the community notification act.
Records say police charged Luke with knowingly establishing a residence within 2,000 feet of Montana Magnet School on Montana Street.
According to a Dothan police statement, police charged Luke because investigators found he was not living at the address he’d provided to police, but living at another address.
According to the sex offender registry at the state Department of Public Safety’s website, Luke was convicted of felony second-degree rape of a 16-year-old girl in Mobile County in 2007.
Luke was taken to the Houston County Jail and held on $2,500 bail.
In an unrelated case, Houston County Sheriff’s investigators arrested an Ashford man on two felony charges alleging he failed to properly register as a convicted sex offender.
Court records indicate investigators charged Anthony Marshall, 27, of Glen Lawrence Road, with the failure to appear to verify registration in the proper time period, which included during the defendant’s birth month, and every three months afterward. He was also charged with the failure to possess a valid driver’s license.
Marshall was taken to the Houston County Jail and held on $15,000 bail for each charge.
Records indicate Marshall was convicted of a felony second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl in Houston County in 2006.
If convicted of the new charges, both Luke and Marshall face one to 10 years in prison for the class C felony crimes.
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