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Dustin Gene Ayres

Level 3 registered predatory offender

PersonActive investigation

Level 3 registered predatory offender who relocated to rural Pillager, Cass County, in June 2026 -- his second Cass County move in about ten months, following a 2024 felony conviction for attempting to violate registration requirements.

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Edgar Earl Lenear

Registered Level 3 Predatory Offender (Burnsville, Dakota County)

PersonActive investigation

Lenear, a Level 3 registered predatory offender, relocated to Burnsville in July 2026 after a February 2026 release. Court records show a fuller history than the public notification discloses: a 1995 burglary conviction, a 1996 homicide that led to a second-degree murder conviction, and two felony convictions for violating his own sex-offender registration requirement.

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Timothy Ryan Gregg

Former Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations; former FBI Task Force Officer

PersonActive investigation

Gregg, a former Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent and FBI Task Force Officer, was charged in June 2025 with production of child sexual abuse material, pleaded guilty in October 2025, and was sentenced July 9, 2026 to seven years in federal prison.

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Christopher John Chad

Former Dean of Rock Ridge Highschool, MN

PersonActive investigation

a former student told a St. Louis County Sheriff's Office investigator and Gilbert Police Chief Ty Techar on December 4, 2025 that Chad sexually assaulted them multiple times between 2021 and 2023, when they were 14 to 16 years old.

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Nathan Johnson

pine city–raised historian, author, lgbtq advocate

PersonActive investigation

Johnson was arrested and charged with two felony counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and two misdemeanor counts of furnishing tobacco to a minor, involving a single juvenile complainant

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