Missing Pender County sex offender arrested

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) – The registered sex offender who was reported missing after he failed to change his address is now behind bars.

Jeremiah Wayne Lewis, 24, is charged with felony probation violation and failure to report change of address.

Investigators say Lewis left his Willard home on December 7. 

The Sheriff’s Office says Lewis is listed on the state’s sex offender registry as a recidivist offender after being convicted twice for indecent liberties with a child in 2012 and 2014.

He is in jail under a $78,000 bond.