Tip ends in arrest
A man living in northern Butler County is accused of failing to comply with Megan's Law registration requirements.
State police last week arrested David L. Foster, 63, of Brady Township, who is being held in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bond in connection with the investigation they say began last month with an anonymous call claiming that an unnamed sex offender was living off Route 173 in Brady Township.
Foster's name came up during the investigation, police said, and he appeared at the barracks Tuesday for an interview. He said he had been living in Butler County since late 2019, but he denied that he was on Megan's Law or ever on it, and therefore he never had to register with police as a sexual offender.
Investigators said when they searched their records they learned Foster was wanted on a bench warrant out of the county.
“The search,” police said, “also revealed that Foster was in fact a sexual offender based on information received from the state of Oklahoma.”
Contact with Megan's Law authorities in Harrisburg, according to investigators, showed he was in violation of the law requiring the registration of offenders based on his crimes in Oklahoma.
“Foster related that he spent 10 years in prison for a 2002 arrest and conviction surrounding a female juvenile incident,” charging documents said.
Foster was arraigned Tuesday on a felony charge of failing to comply with registration requirements under Megans' Law, and he was later placed in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 bond.
His preliminary hearing is set March 18 at the office of District Judge Bill O'Donnell in Slippery Rock. Online court records did not indicate if Foster has an attorney.
