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Vernon James Hawks, 51, Gallatin has been taken into custody on charges of child molestation first degree, two counts of sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 second/subsequent offense, and failure to register as sex offender. The charges were filed on Feb. 26 in Daviess County.
A forensic interview was conducted with a 12-year-old juvenile at the North Central Missouri Children’s Advocacy Center in Trenton on Feb. 3, according to court documents. The juvenile described three separate incidents with Hawks.
Hawks cut off his GPS monitoring device on Jan. 28 and fled the state after learning that law enforcement had been informed. He placed the GPS device in the spare tire carrier of a semi.
Hawks was taken into custody in the State of California on Feb. 17 and is currently in the Colorado Department of Corrections.
He was convicted of sexual abuse in the first degree in Missouri in 1988. He was convicted of sexual assault of a child under age 15 in Colorado in 1999.
Hawks’ probation has been terminated in the state of Missouri and transferred back to Colorado where the board of probation and parole issued a warrant.