Texarkana Gazette

Texas DPS makes addition to top 10 sex offenders list

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The Texas Department of Public Safety has added a fugitive to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, and a cash reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for informatio­n leading to his capture.

Dakota Marcus Stewart, 26, a high-risk sex offender, is wanted for failure to register as a sex offender. All tips are guaranteed to be anonymous.

Stewart has ties to Tarrant County (including the cities of Mansfield, his last known address; Fort Worth and Arlington) and Dallas. In 2009, Stewart was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by exposure after incidents in Tarrant County involving an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl.

Stewart is 6 feet tall and weighs about 175 pounds. He has a tattoo on his left wrist and scars on his left hand, back, and face. Stewart is known to provide false and fictitious informatio­n, including different names. For more informatio­n or updates in the event of his arrest, see his wanted bulletin at: http://www.dps. texas.gov/Texas10Mos­tWanted/ Most Wanted/ Sex Offender Details.

Texas Crime Stoppers, which is funded by the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division, offers cash rewards to any person who provides informatio­n that leads to the arrest of one of the Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives or sex offenders. So far in 2017, Texas Crime Stoppers has paid $51,000 in total rewards for anonymous tips that resulted in arrests.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must provide informatio­n to authoritie­s using one of the following methods:

Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).

Text the letters “DPS”— followed by your tip—to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cellphone.

Submit a web tip through the DPS website by selecting the fugitive you have informatio­n about, and then clicking on the link under their picture.

Submit a Facebook tip at http://www.facebook.com/texas10mos­twanted by clicking the “SUBMIT A TIP” link (under the “About” section).

All tips are anonymous— regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.

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