High-Risk Sex Offender Arrested In Spokane

Mon., Jan. 25, 1999

A high-risk sex offender was arrested by Spokane police on Saturday afternoon for not living at the address he had registered with authorities.

Jason William Bocook is a Level III sex offender with eight convictions including two child rapes. He hadn’t been living at the address he had registered, a violation of law, police said.

Bocook was arrested at a relative’s house in the 4900 block of North Freya after police received a tip.

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