WI- Woman upset her address linked to sex offender

11-16-2008 Wisconsin:

RACINE — Residents living in the 1600 block of North Main Street can rest assured there is no sex offender living at the home of Charles and Michelle Laycock, the couple says.

A story in Saturday’s Journal Times reported on disorderly conduct charges being filed Wednesday against Aron E. Laycock, 28, who allegedly handed an obscene message to a mail carrier who was doing her route on North Main on Oct. 4. In the criminal complaint, the mail carrier also alleges that Aron Laycock had been in the area before and appeared to be following and watching her.

Laycock is also facing pending unrelated charges for using a computer to send threatening or obscene messages and being a felon in possession of pepper spray. He has previous convictions for fourth-degree sexual assault, bail jumping and false imprisonment.

Michelle Laycock was upset to see the address listed for Aron in Saturday’s paper was that of her and her husband. While noting that Aron Laycock is her husband’s nephew and has visited their house, he has never resided at their address, she said.

She said she believes he lives elsewhere in Racine. The state Sex Offender Registry lists Aron Laycock’s current address as the Racine County Jail.

The last time Aron Laycock was at the Layocks’ residence on North Main was in September, Michelle said. At that time, Aron reportedly informed them that he had cut an ankle probation monitoring device from his leg. Michelle said at that point she and her husband asked Aron to leave their residence. He has not been back since, Michelle said.

She said that while they know some of their neighbors, they don’t know everyone in their neighborhood and fear that Charles, who Michelle said is a young-looking 40, might be confused for Aron.

Michelle said she made a call to Racine Police on Saturday and a records clerk there confirmed that the address listed with Aron’s arrest records was indeed 1620 N. Main St. Michelle said the clerk was as mystified as they were as to how that happened. Michelle said the clerk did correct Aron’s address in the police computer system. The police patrol supervisor on duty Saturday night said he was not able to confirm that.

According to Michelle, there are other inaccuracies in Saturday’s Journal Times report. Michelle said the mail carrier told her that the date printed for the obscene note incident is also incorrect and said that the note was never handed to her, but was posted on her postal vehicle.

Generally, stories in The Journal Times about criminal charges come from criminal complaints released to the media by the Racine County District Attorney’s office.
..News Source.. by Journal Times staff