Sheriff’s office: Suspect should not have been in sex offender registry

5-3-2013 Arizona:

KINGMAN — A man arrested last month in Mohave Valley for failure to register as a sex offender in Arizona should not have been listed as a sex offender in the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s database after his 2009 conviction had been overturned by a military court of criminal appeals.

That’s the conclusion of an investigation conducted by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office following the April 22 arrest of 32-year-old Michael J. Pineda.

A timeline in the case was prepared by Lt. Randy McNally of the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office and provided to the Mohave Valley Daily News, which received information from Pineda’s associates, friends and family members that indicated he should not have been charged with the sex offender violation because that criminal conviction had been removed from his record. ..continued.. by The Daily News staff