Two of Texas’ top-ten most-wanted child sex offenders have been captured.
On September 24, special agents of the Texas Department of Public Safety captured 38-year-old Joey Ray Gonzalez in Houston. Gonzalez was first convicted of sexual assault of a child in 2007 after assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He was then sentenced to 3 years in prison.
In 2017, Gonzalez was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender and received a two-year prison sentence. He had been wanted since February of this year when a warrant was issued for his arrest for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
Gonzalez also has a previous property theft charge.
Also on September 24, members of the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force, together with DPS special agents, arrested George Allen Rogers, 39, in Canyon, Texas.
Rogers has been arrested multiple times for sexual crimes involving a child. In 2002, Rogers was arrested for indecency with a child by sexual contact, and in 2018, he was arrested for aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Rogers had been wanted since April, when a warrant was issued for his arrest for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 years of age.
Rogers has also been arrested for stealing property and giving a worthless check.
On September 16, 35-year-old Dante Lamar Benjamin, another member of Texas’ top ten most wanted sex offenders, turned himself in at the Longview Police Department.
Benjamin had been wanted since April for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. In 2011, he was convicted of sexual assault of a child in Louisana after assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He was then sentenced to 3 years of probation. His probation was later revoked, and he was sentenced to 5 years in confinement.
Benjamin has additional charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, computer-aided solicitation for sexual purposes, duty on striking fixture or highway landscape, and possession of marijuana.
Two of Texas’ top-ten most-wanted sex offenders were also taken into custody in August, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.