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There was one less registered sex offender living in Clay County in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the previous quarter, according to the Minnesota Public Registrant Search.

There are eight sex offenders registered in Clay County in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to seven the quarter before.

The Registry shows one of these sex offender is sexual predator. In Minnesota, convicted predatory offenders also are subject to certain mandatory sentencing laws that are designed to minimize their chances to re-offend.

Minnesota legislation about sex offenders and predators is currently being evaluated and revised, such as if offenders with good behavior can be removed from the Registry.

Frequently updated information about sex offenders in Minnesota can be found online here.

Offender	Crime	Crime description
Danny Fitzgerald Coleman	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Offender engaged in sexual contact with a 13 year-old female victim. Contact included penetration. Offender gained access to victim through a pretense of asking for assistance. Force and threats were used to gain compliance. Offender was not known to victim.
David Mark Harmer	Sex offense, non-MN statute	Offender engaged in sexual contact with a 14 year-old female victim. The contact included penetration. Offender gained compliance through physical force and use of a weapon. Offender gained access to victim by taking advantage of her sleeping state. Offender met victim for the first time on the same day as offense.
Leo Leonard Morin	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, kidnapping	Leo Morin has a history of engaging in sexual contact with several known female children. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Morin used his position of authority to gain compliance.
Jesse James Syverson	Predatory offense, non-MN statute	Jesse Syverson has a history of possessing child pornography on his computer.
Rodney Russell Trudeau	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Rodney Trudeau has a history of sexual contact with known female children. Contact has included sexual touching and penetration. Trudeau has used grooming, coercion, and his position of authority to gain compliance. Trudeau gained access while living at victims' residences.
Richard Folden	Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree	Richard Folden has a history of engaging in sexual contact with known female children and teens. Contact included penetration. Folden used threats to gain compliance in one instance.
Andre Demond Tolefree	Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree, kidnapping, false Imprisonment	Andre Tolefree engaged in sexual contact against a known female teenager. Contact included penetration. Tolefree used force and a weapon to gain compliance. Tolefree gained access to victim online. Tolefree also physically assaulted and held a known adult female against her will. Tolefree used a weapon to gain compliance.
Telemachus Johnson Martin	Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree	Telemachus Martin engaged in sexual contact with a known teen-aged female. Contact included penetration. Martin used attention and affection to gain and exploit access.