By Frank DeLoache
Salisbury Post
KANNAPOLIS ó The Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office has charged a convicted sex offender living in Kannapolis with multiple violations of the state sex offender law.
Daven Wayne Adams ó who has the words TRUST NO-ONE tatooed above his eyebrows ó is charged with failure to register as a sex offender, living within 1,000 feet of a school and failure to register a change of address.
In part, Adams is accused of living for an undetermined amount of time at 102 Stewart St., Concord, which an investigator says is located less than 300 feet from Winecoff Elementary School.
Thanks to an anonymous tip and interviews with neighborhoods, Deputy Frank Laroche III determined that Adams, 30, has been living most recently at 209 W. 16th St., in the Rowan County side of Kannapolis.
Kannapolis police officers arrested Adams Thursday and turned him over to Laroche, who is the sex offender registration officer for the Cabarrus Sheriff’s Office.
Laroche also served Adams with six older, unrelated warrants charging him with writing worthless checks.
He remains in the Cabarrus County Jail under $100,000 bond.
According to the N.C. Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry, Adams was convicted Jan. 12, 1998, in Cabarrus County of incest with near relatives. He was released two months later and registered as a sex offender on March 31, 1998.
No more information was available Friday about the incest charge, but the state registry provides other information about Adams:
– He has used the alias Antonio Valentino and also spelled his first name Devin.
– He has piercings in his left ear, nose, lower lip, tongue and eyebrow and a scar on his right arm from a gun shot wound.
– In addition to the words above his eyebrows, Adams has a long list of tattoos, including “tribal art” around his neck, “23rd Street Crip” on his back and a clown on his abdomen.
He has the word “slayer” engraved on his right shoulder, anarchy symbols in two places, two crosses on his upper left arm and a flaming cross with the name “Cathy” on his upper right arm.
According to the state registry, Adams has lived variously in Kannapolis, Concord and Raleigh from 1998 to 2006.
According to Laroche, the Cabarrus registration officer, state law requires sex offenders to personally bring a “validation sheet” showing their address to the registration officer in their county twice a year.
Laroche said he currently has 232 registered offenders living in Cabarrus County who are supposed to report to him twice a year.
The State Bureau of Investigation mails the validation sheet to each sex offender, and the agency last sent a form to Adams on March 25, Laroche said.
Adams had 10 days to bring the form to Laroche, but he mailed it instead, saying he still lived at 102 Stewart St.
Since Adams had already violated the law, Laroche went to the Stewart Street house, where some of Adams’ relatives live, and they said he no longer lived there.
That justified charging Adams with failure to register a change of address, Laroche said, and the deputy determined at the same time that the Stewart Street home is less than 300 feet from Winecoff Elementary, another violation.
Though he obtained warrants for Adams, Laroche still didn’t know where he had moved.
He said he got an anonymous call on Wednesday, saying Adams lived in a particular neighborhood of Kannapolis. Laroche said he went to that neighborhood the next day and found a person who had seen Adams mowing the lawn.
Laroche relayed the address of the house to Kannapolis police, who arrested Adams Thursday.
Contact Frank DeLoache at 704-797-4245 or fdeloache@salisburypost.com.