CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER ARRESTED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Acting on a tip, Cumberland County deputies went to check on a sex offender who was possibly staying at a residence with a child present that was not his. Officers spotted the suspect, 52-year-old Robert Eugene Richardson, driving a van on Westel Road and pulled him over. Deputies said the van Richardson was in was not showing in his sex offender registry as a vehicle he uses. Richardson was arrested and taken to jail. He was placed on the registry after a conviction of rape and attempted rape in 1993.