When a man required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life landed in Greene County last year, he registered at the sheriff’s department but allegedly gave incorrect information. Deputies were unable to locate him for months but he was tracked down and arrested. Last Thursday he was charged with a felony.

Bradley Carl Allen, 42, Terre Haute, formerly of Linton, was arrested by Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy Harvey Holt on May 9 after Deputy Holt’s investigation into the whereabouts of Allen.

Allen was convicted of sexual battery in Vigo County in 2011. He was sentenced to six months in the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) with one year suspended. As a result of this conviction, he is required to register with the Indiana Sex and Violent Offenders List for the rest of his life.

In 2013, he was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender in Clay County and sentenced to another six months in DOC.

A little over a year ago, on April 23, 2018, Allen registered in Greene County, listing his residence as 1212 A Street NE in Linton. At that time, he initialed pages of the application indicating he understood his requirements to notify the sheriff’s department within 72 hours of any changes in his information and address.

After his initial registration in Greene County, on June 1, 2018, a residential check was conducted with Allen who verified his address was still the same.

In early October of 2018 and again in April of 2019, Greene County’s Registrar Temperance Harris sent Allen a notification that he needed to come in to the sheriff’s department to verify his information. The notices were sent via USPS Certified Mail. Both were returned because he had moved and left no forwarding address.

In October of 2018, Deputy Bruce Porter made multiple attempts to contact Allen at his residence in Linton with no success, finally talking to someone who said Allen had moved out a month earlier. The person that was living at the residence at that time and the landlord both confirmed Allen no longer lived there.

Deputy Holt was then called in to investigate and locate Allen.

In mid-April, when Holt talked to Allen by phone, Allen allegedly said he still lived at the residence in Linton, even going so far as explaining which apartment he was in but saying he couldn’t meet with Holt because he was working in Illinois and wouldn’t be back until very late. Holt told him the sheriff’s department was open 24 hours a day and to let him know when he got home.

The next day, Allen did call in and Holt sent Deputy James Carpenter out to meet Allen. But Allen was not there. And several more attempts were made.

During this investigation, Holt talked to the employer Allen had listed on his registration, a hotel/motel in Terre Haute, who denied Allen was ever employed there but said he did live there a couple of years ago.

He also talked to Allen’s current employer who allegedly said he picks Allen up for work every morning on the north side of Terre Haute and has been doing that since the summer of 2018.

Finally at 3 p.m. on May 9, Holt was able to sit down for an interview with Allen conducted at the Greene County Sheriff’s Department. According to Holt, Allen admitted to staying at a residence in Terre Haute and that the only information that was correct on his registration was his name, date of birth and phone number. All other information was incorrect and that he knew of his obligation to keep the information updated. Holt said Allen admitted he hadn’t been staying at the registered residence.

Holt wrote that the interview was then terminated.

At 4:07 p.m. that day, Allen was booked into jail.

Allen’s bond was set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. He posted $400 cash, was released and scheduled to appear in court last Thursday, May 16.

He did show up at his initial hearing and was charged with failure to register as a sex offender, a Level 6 felony.