A registered sex offender was arrested Thursday after failing to update his whereabouts with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
In July, the office’s Sexual Assault Unit was conducting an unannounced sex offender compliance check in the Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village areas when they were unable to locate 58-year-old Marc Shearer.
An investigation to verify Shearer’s whereabouts began when he was not found during a second check of the areas, the Sheriff’s Office stated in a news release.
Detectives learned that Shearer, who is listed as a transient on the Megan’s Law website, was staying around the 4200 block of North Ventura Avenue in an incorporated area north of Ventura. They also discovered he had been in the area for several months.
Shearer was located and arrested Thursday morning without incident, the Sheriff’s Office stated.
He was booked for failure to update or provide a change of address and his bail was set at $20,000.
The Sheriff’s Office noted that registered sex offenders are required to provide local law enforcement with a current address every year and when they move. Transient offenders are required to register every 30 days.