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A Destin sex offender tried to keep his dirty secret under wraps for too long. Clarence Brandon Walton, 54, dropped off a kid at an elementary school without batting an eye, but an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy had other plans.
The cop discovered Walton was a convicted sex offender who’d stopped registering as required by law back in December 2023. It took a Georgia arrest warrant to get Walton’s attention, but he still failed to comply.
Walton’s SORNA registration requirements date back to his 2006 guilty plea – an offense that put him on the sex offender registry. When a deputy caught up with him in August 2024, Walton hadn’t registered in Florida, as he was supposed to.
Walton’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. He’ll face the music after a joint investigation by the U.S. Marshal’s Service, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide effort to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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📋 Key Facts
- Crime: Sex Crimes
- Defendant: Florida
- Location: US
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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