Sex offender arrested after parking at a Westchester school
A new state law helped police arrest a registered sex offender who was allegedly hanging around elementary schools in Manhattan Beach and Westchester.
While sex offender Richard Gibbons was under police surveillance for about six hours this week, he drove to about a dozen elementary schools, including two in the South Bay.He usually parked his car outside the campuses and stayed inside, authorities said. But on Tuesday, when he allegedly parked his car in the school lot at Cowan Elementary School in Westchester, Gibbons violated a new state law.
The Sex Offender Control and Containment Act, enacted last year, makes it a misdemeanor for anyone required to register as a sex offender to go onto school grounds without reason and written permission. The law also bans sex offenders from parks and other places where children congregate.
Here's the rest of the story by our court reporter Denise Nix.