MI- Budget cancels extradition of top sex offender

3-8-2009 Michigan:

Budget cuts have led the Livingston County prosecutor's office to decide not to extradite a Green Oak Township man listed on the state's Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.

William L. Tyrer, 44, who was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, was wanted on a 2005 warrant in Livingston County for failing to register on the state's sex offender registry.

He was arrested Dec. 30 in Reno, Nev., where he was subsequently sentenced to 12-32 months in prison for violating probation and providing false information to police while he tried to register as a sex offender there.

Prosecutor David Morse estimated it would cost about $2,500 to extradite Tyrer, who has not registered on the Michigan sex offender list since 1999.

"We knew when we had to take budget cuts there would be fugitives we wouldn't be able to bring back," Morse said Thursday.

Morse does not lay the blame for lack of funding at the Livingston County Board of Commissioners' feet, but rather on himself because he submitted the budget — which was eventually approved by the county commission — that had no extradition funding.

He hopes that the department will find ways to fund extradition in the future.

County Commissioner Jack LaBelle, who chairs the commission's Finance Committee, said he believes the commission would find the money if Morse felt not bringing a fugitive back would "reverberate throughout the community."

"I'm sure we'd support him," LaBelle said. "I can't imagine the board not supporting him."

Overall, Morse is pragmatic about the Tyrer situation.

"He'll be incarcerated in Nevada, so it's not like he'll be running free," Morse said. ..News Source.. by Lisa Roose-Church



Sex offender on most-wanted absconder list back in custody

2-26-2009 Nevada:

A former Livingston County man on Michigan's list of most-wanted sex offender registry violators is back in custody.

William L. Tyrer, 34, will be sentenced next week and likely faces prison time in Reno, Nev., where police picked him up in December for failing to register.

The former Green Oak Township man pleaded guilty in 1995 to first-degree criminal sexual conduct and was released in January 1999.

The 34-year-old victim told police she was walking home from a Whitmore Lake bar when Tyrer grabbed her, forced her to the lakefront and raped her.

Police said Tyrer never registered as a sex offender after he was released, and he's been sought on a felony warrant since.

Tyrer has been arrested twice in Nevada and has been in jail there since December for failing to register in that state. It's unclear whether Michigan officials were notified of the arrests; they said they only learned Tyrer was in custody last week after they received an anonymous tip.

Tyrer faces a minimum of one year and maximum of four years in prison at his March 4 sentencing, officials said. He could get additional time for violating his probation, which he was placed on after a 2006 arrest in Nevada, officials said. ..Source.. by MLive.com