After 21 years, marshals track fugitive sex offender to Pasco County
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TAMPA, Fla. - Idaho’s longest absconded sex offender is back behind bars after a law enforcement task force tracked him down in Central Florida.
Authorities had been looking for Phillip Jenison since 1999. He was convicted in a molestation case back in 1995 but had absconded four years later, failing to register as a sex offender after his release from prison. That made him the state s longest absconded offender, according to officials.
Without specifying how, U.S. Marshals in Tampa say they were able to figure out that Jenison, now 75 years old, had been in Pasco County since at least 2000, living under the alias Philip Kane.
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Sex offender arrested after living more than 20 years under alias in Pasco County
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and last updated 2021-03-08 14:44:03-05
A sex offender absconded in 1999 in Idaho was arrested more than 20 years later after officials found him living in Pasco County.
On Friday, US Marshals from Tampa, Florida Caribbean Fugitive Task Force, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Dixie County Sheriff s Office coordinated together to apprehend Idaho s longest absconded sex offender.
Phillip Jenison, 75, was wanted for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender after absconding from Idaho in 1999. Jenison was convicted for Molestation in 1995 and required by law to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.