Vernon James Hawks, 51, was transported from Colorado Correctional Center to Daviess DeKalb Regional Jail on Sept. 1, on a felony warrant for child molestation. He is also charged with two counts of sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 and failure to register as sex offender.
The charges were filed Feb. 26, in Daviess County after a forensic interview was conducted with a 12-year-old juvenile at the North Central Missouri Children’s Advocacy Center in Trenton.
Hawks cut off his GPS monitoring device 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. He was taken into custody in the State of California on Feb. 17 and has been in the custody of 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.
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