Source: zanesvilletimesrecorder.com 8/21/25
ZANESVILLE – Inmates within the Georgia prison system organized a defrauding scheme in 2024 to defraud sex offenders and across the country, including two male victims in Ohio.
Marquis Lamar Conner Sr., 43, of Decatur, Georgia, was the last of four defendants to go before the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas for sentencing Aug. 18.
Per request, Conner argued for his own sentencing before Judge Kelly Cottrill. After a lengthy statement where he blamed the victims for being defrauded, Conner received four years in an Ohio prison to follow his release in Georgia, according to a community announcement from the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John Litle recommended the four-year sentence after Conner pleaded guilty to engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a second-degree felony, in June.
Conner was also ordered to pay $9,400 in restitution to the victims, one of which lived in Muskingum County.
Two others, …
Over the years, I’ve received multiple phone calls from individuals impersonating law enforcement-each one crafted to provoke fear, extract information, or coerce compliance. I never disclosed my identity. I asked for their name, then hung up. When I reported the first incident to the local police station, the desk sergeant dismissed it as a prank, saying it was “probably someone in their mother’s basement” and not worth pursuing. He added, “If we’re after you, we won’t call-we just come.” That response revealed more than apathy; it exposed a systemic refusal to investigate impersonation when the target is already stigmatized. Still, it taught me a valuable lesson: never trust a phone caller. I have since deleted the calls. I archive only what protects. The rest, I release. Truth.
The registry is a government invitation to injury/harm/kill, harass, and commit fraud all because of a false label of we were, we are and will always be dangerous.
Blame the victims for being exploited is rich, how about not doing whatever you want just because you believe in street justice. 4 years is too short of a sentence in my opinion.
I hope ACSOL is adding this piece of evidence to the long list that the registry is purposely putting PFR and their loved one in danger. We have had murders b/c the registry was used. We have had extortion because the registry was used. With this case, we have people in prison use the registry to extort monies. People in prison are doing this scheme!
Eventually, history will reflect how evil a punishment the registry was and how passing such a judgement was “manifestly arbitrary and unreasonable” (reference from the Douglas County judge wrongly blocked man from de-registering.” The government is exposing all these defendants who have already paid their dues to society, but the gov’t is absolved from all the wrongdoings that occur from exposing all the defendants who have already paid their dues to society.
Where is the constitutional review or oversight? PFR are not protected equally like free citizens or freed citizens (other convict groups who finished their duties to society). Oh… that’s right, because the gov’t wrongly cited that the registry was just a regulatory scheme b/c these people convicted of sex crimes have a “frightening and high” recidivism rate of 80%. We have an academic paper that shows SCOTUS used wrong, false data via Dr. Ira Ellman and Tara Ellman. We also have several decade studies from different states that show low recidivism rates of around 3-3.5%. CA showed under 1% when focused only on recidivism. DoJ cited 5% in the article “Denied for old crimes: The complex challenge of long-term care for America’s aging PFR.”
Even when one is off the registry, that is only recognized in a few states. You can still be put back onto the registry. How is that even constitutionally possible if you haven’t committed any new sex crime?
PFR do not have equal rights as other citizens. More like “3/5th rights as citizens”.