Arrest for Violation of Sex Offender Registration Act

DATE & TIME: 05-13-2021 / 8:15am

LOCATION: 204 North Bell Street, Beatrice

OFFENSE: Arrest for Violation of Sex Offender Registration Act

CASE #: 2021-1536

On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at approximately 8:15am investigators and deputies from the Gage County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at 204 North Bell Street in Beatrice and arrested 55-year-old Dusty Gene Mayhew for violation of the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act as he was living/staying at an address he had not reported to the Gage County Sheriff’s Office for the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry.

In mid-April 2021, investigators from the Gage County Sheriff’s Office were contacted by a Nebraska probation officer and informed that information had been received that Dusty Gene Mayhew, a registered sex offender, was staying at 204 North Bell Street in Beatrice and driving a vehicle he had not reported to the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry.

Over the next several weeks investigators worked with the Nebraska State Patrol Sex Offender Registration Unit, the Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center (MOCIC) and the Sex Offender Tracking Team of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as well as conducting an independent investigation and developed information that Dusty Mayhew was living or staying at that address.

During the service of the search warrant Dusty Mayhew was located at that residence as well as his personal belongings and other evidence being found at the scene. He was arrested by investigators and taken to the Gage County Detention Center where he was booked on two felony violations of the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act.

A person subject to the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act is provided documentation of their reporting requirements after their conviction and before being released from custody. The reporting of information by the registered sex offender is completed at the sheriff’s office, takes 5-10 minutes, or less, to complete the form, and there is no financial cost or charge to the registered sex offender.

Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson #903

Sergeant T. Hanson #90310

Investigator M. Ernst #90315