 |
 |
Sallisaw Man Arrested For Lewd Molestation
3 years ago | 85 views | 0 
| 1 
| 
| 
| 1 | |
A Sallisaw police officer was first dispatched to a Sallisaw home in reference to a report of lewd molestation. According to the police report, the officer met with the couple who reported the incident, and they told police that a 7-year-old girl was running down the street in front of their home, yelling for help. One of the witnesses asked the girl what was wrong and she told him that she needed her aunt.
The girl later said that she was playing on the computer in her aunt's bedroom when the suspect, first identified as Edward Cascaden, came over to her and started touching her inappropriately and then exposed himself. The girl fled the home to get help.
Police reported that when they went across the street to the home where the molestation allegedly occurred, they asked Cascaden to come outside. Police reported that the suspect was on the phone at the time and told police to wait. He then walked to the door and allegedly told police, "I didn't do anything to her."
Cascaden was detained for investigative purposes and was taken the Sallisaw City Jail. When Cascaden was fingerprinted and booked into the jail, police discovered that Cascaden had given a false name to officers and his name was actually James Michael Labone, 53. Labone's record indicated that he had been previously convicted of a sex crime.
Police said Labone should have registered as a sex offender with the police department, but did not.
Labone was booked into the city jail on charges of lewd molestation, indecent exposure, failure to register as a sex offender, being a convicted sex offender living within 2,000 feet of school, and two counts of giving false information to police officer, all after former conviction of a felony, according to jail records. He is currently being held on a $100,000 bond.
The police report is expected to be submitted to the Sequoyah County District Attorney's office in Sallisaw this week.
post a comment
comments (0)
no comments yet
The Sequoyah County Times offers readers the ability to post comments about news stories appearing on sequoyahcountytimes.com. There is no guarantee of anonymity. Post your comments knowing that your name may one day be released under judicial or other circumstances. Your TIMES will not modify your comments posted to the web, but if they contain personal attacks, profanity, or other degrading comments, we can, at our sole discretion, delete them, even if most of the comment makes a good point. Comments unrelated to the story will be deleted. Click here to read the complete user agreement.
