Alert citizen leads to arrest of registered offender at school bus stop

POINCIANA, Florida — A vigilant resident’s report led to the arrest of a registered sex offender at a school bus stop, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Jonathan Louis, a 37-year-old from Poinciana, was taken into custody after being spotted among children at the bus stop without a valid reason.The incident occurred at approximately 8:25 a.m. on Friday, January 17, when a concerned citizen noticed Louis’s suspicious presence and alerted authorities. Deputies identified Louis, who lived nearby but had no children attending the school, and found he could not explain his presence at the bus stop.Louis has been a registered sex offender since a 2004 conviction in Lake County for lewd and lascivious battery involving a victim aged 12 to 15 years. After his…..

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