Source: mercurynews.com 6/25/26
WALNUT CREEK — The then-17-year-old boy was armed with two things: his BB gun and a list of local registered sex offenders, available through a public statewide database that tracks them, according to authorities.
The teen proceeded to travel around town, accosting and threatening people convicted of sex crimes, and occasionally shooting at them with the BB gun. On March 15, he was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon and assault with a firearm, according to police and court records.
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The alleged targeting of sex offenders is reminiscent of a more serious incident last year, in Fremont, where a 29-year-old man allegedly posed as an accountant, went to the home of a convicted child molester, and killed him, later allegedly bragging to police how good it felt to stab the victim. The suspect, Varun Suresh, was charged with murder but his case has been put on hold while his mental competency is evaluated, records show.
In both cases, the sex offenders were targeted through Megan’s Law, a site that tracks people convicted of various sexual offenses and publicly lists their photographs and addresses. It was created after the murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka in New Jersey by a twice-convicted sex offender who’d quietly been released from prison and moved into the girl’s neighborhood without her family’s knowledge.
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Try using a bb gun to threaten other other dope dealers if you want to portray yourself as a badass.
This teen should have been monitored with GPS, compliance checks, and being listed on a registry for being a drug dealer at 17. I wonder if he knows he’s a drug dealer or California considers him clueless because he is 17 and could not know that being a street pharmacist is illegal.
I posted about this on the general forum. Interesting that he targeted pfr’s but was also a drug dealer?!?! Sees no problem with harassing one felon while committing felonies himself. Such a hypocrite. Being a minor they will probably only charge him as a juvenile. Tell that to my friend that was charged as an adult at 17 for a crime he committed at 13 with a 12 year old girl. Pathetic!!!
He didn’t have a phone? He wasn’t doing it for social media clicks? I’m skeptical. Still, this shows that when the government lies about a group of citizens, there are consequences. I hate the term “grooming,” but the government and media are essentially grooming our youth to hate an entire group of people, for no reason.
There’s got to be a way for the registrant’s family (or registrant if they are still alive) to sue the government for their harm if the perpetrator admits to getting the info from the registry.
THIS is why the public posting, (the Registry itself) needs to go! Here in AZ, they changed the law and have everyone (even level 1s) on the web. Not too long ago, a PFR was murdered because his information was on the web
In a couple of years, this delinquent will be able to have a real firearm. Then we’ll likely have some serious gunplay to contend with. People in that area be forewarned!
When the number of lives on the registry that are lost due to registry-related violence exceed those of the ones this “Megan’s Law” is designed to protect (and we may be there already, I don’t know), will it finally become clear to everyone the true intent behind this list?
When will they see that the registry as a useless waste of time – one which will only make a significant, and growing, segment of the population rise up one day to combat it?