A California sex offender living in Woodstock was arrested Thursday and charged with violating Georgia’s sex offender registry law.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Darnell Oliver, 50, had been living on Sweet Gun Street. An anonymous tip led authorities to the address, where Oliver was arrested, according to sheriff's spokesman Lt. Howard Baker.
“It appears he has been living in Cherokee since 2010,” Baker told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He said Oliver worked out of his home, but Baker didn't know where he lived in California before moving to Georgia.
Oliver was convicted in 1986 in California of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14.
Georgia law requires non-resident sex offenders who have moved to the state to register, in addition to residents who have been convicted in another state.
Cherokee authorities also charged Oliver with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Sheriff’s deputies took Oliver to the Cherokee Adult Detention Center, where he was being held on $22,400 bond.
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