A convicted sex offender was registered as living in the Lyons area, but could not be found there. Next he registered as living in Solsberry but could not be found there. Then a deputy found him staying in Lyons. Now he can be found in jail.

Roy Lee Frye, 41, was arrested Wednesday afternoon, October 16, by Det. Shawn Cullison of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant issued earlier in the day as a result of an investigation by Det. Cullison.

Frye is a convicted sex offender who is required to register on Indiana’s Sex and Violent Offender Registry for the rest of his life.

Frye was convicted of sexual battery on October 28, 2003, in Bartholomew County. According to the statewide registry, he was sentenced to 545 days with all suspended.

Since the initial conviction, Frye has also been convicted of failure to register as a sex offender in 2008 and again in 2011. He served time in the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) after both of those convictions.

More recently, on September 27, Det. Cullison was tasked with verifying Frye’s address, at 2821 South County Road 800 West in the Lyons area, that was listed on the registry at that time.

When Det. Cullison arrived, he found a residence in disrepair that appeared to be uninhabitable. When he talked to the property owner, the owner said he had given Frye permission to stay there but had not checked to see if Frye was staying there or not.

Then on Thursday, October 10, when Det. Cullison and GCSD Deputy Michael Coy conducted a traffic stop in the Linton area, the driver was identified as Frye. Det. Cullison asked him where he was living now and Frye allegedly said he had just moved to a residence on North Pierce Drive, Solsberry. Frye said he was going to stop at the sheriff’s department to register his new address. When Det. Cullison checked with Temperance Harris, the registrar at the sheriff’s department, she verified Frye did stop in and register the new Solsberry address.

However, when Det. Cullison was on patrol in Lyons on Tuesday, October 15, he reported seeing Frye at a residence on Prairie Street.

So later in the day, Det. Cullison and Deputy Coy went to the address in the Solsberry area that Frye had registered. When they talked to a man who resides there, he said Frye had not been there since October 11 and he thought Frye and his girlfriend were staying at a residence on Prairie Street in Lyons.

Early the next morning, on Wednesday, October 16, Det. Cullison checked the residence in Lyons and reported Frye’s vehicle was still parked there.

That same day, a criminal case was filed against Frye in Greene Circuit Court and the judge ordered a warrant be issued for Frye’s arrest. Frye was taken into custody and before 4 p.m., Frye had been booked in to the Greene County Jail.

Yesterday, Thursday, October 17, Frye appeared before Judge Erik Allen and was formally charged with failure to register as a sex offender with a prior conviction, a Level 5 felony.

Frye’s bond is set at $10,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. As of Friday evening, October 18, he had not yet posted bond and was still in jail.