Sex offender accused of being on Roger Bacon Academy campus

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — A man convicted of sex crimes in New Jersey now faces charges in Brunswick County.

According to the arrest warrant, Corey Jason Lightbody, 31, went on the the premises of Roger Bacon Academy in Leland on Wednesday.

According to an article from the New Jersey Herald, Lightbody was part of a cyber sex sting that snared six men in 2008.

The NJ Department of Corrections shows Lightbody was last in custody for sex offense crimes in April of 2017.

Lightbody is in the Brunswick County Detention Center under $51,000 bond.

He’s charged with sex offender child premises and resisting public officer.