Sex offender cuts ankle monitor in East El Paso, flees
An escaped sex offender's last known location was a block from the Texas Department of Public Safety office in far East El Paso.
Sex offender cuts ankle monitor in East El Paso, flees An escaped sex offender's last known location was a block from the Texas Department of Public Safety office in far East El Paso. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2017/07/12/sex-offender-cuts-ankle-monitor-east-el-paso-flees/473635001/
Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times Published 3:41 p.m. MT July 12, 2017 | Updated 4:24 p.m. MT July 12, 2017
Ronnie Joseph Escobar(Photo: Courtesy El Paso County Sheriff's Office)
El Paso County sheriff's deputies are searching for a convicted sex offender who fled Tuesday after cutting off his ankle monitor in the far East Side.
Ronnie Joseph Escobar, 53, allegedly severed his ankle monitor while going to an appointment with the Texas Department of Public Safety, sheriff's officials said.
Officials said that the monitor was removed when Escobar was about a block away from the DPS office on Scott Simpson Drive.
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Escobar had been staying at the El Paso Transitional Center halfway house near Horizon City.
Officials said Escobar was on parole after being convicted in 1986 in the sexual assault of a 50-year-old woman during a burglary in Runnels County, located south of Abilene.
Escobar is 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds with brown eyes and black hair, according to the Texas sex offender registry. He is listed as a "moderate" risk level offender.
Anyone with information on Escobar's location may call the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at 538-2008.
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