Friday, October 31, 2008

Sex offender charged with loitering near school

A 38-year-old registered sex offender is facing charges of loitering near a school and resisting police.

Norton Shores police arrested Jeffrey Thomas Partlow, of 68 E. Lincoln, Muskegon Heights, at his parents' home on Wednesday.

Norton Shores Detective Tony Nanna said a school bus stop also is three houses down from the parents' home.

Partlow previously had been warned about being in the area of the middle school and Campbell Elementary School, 1355 Greenwich, in Roosevelt Park, police said.

Norton Shores police contacts with Partlow, who has a 2000 conviction in West Virginia for indecent acts with a child, began last December. Nanna said Partlow was told he could visit his parents, but couldn't walk around the neighborhood.

"Multiple kids in the neighborhood would see him watching in the window as they got off and on the bus." -- Norton Shores Detective Tony Nanna.

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