SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY – Over the past two weeks, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Task Force has conducted Operation C.R.E.E.P. (Coordinated Registrant Enforcement & Enhanced Prosecution). Deputies fanned out across the county to check on registered sex offenders who live in the community and make sure they are complying with the requirements of Megan’s Law. Deputies found 15 subjects who were in violation and took them into custody.

 The following suspects were charged as follows and committed to jail without bail:

•  Gary Fulton, 48 of Narrowsburg – 4 counts of failure to register + fugitive from justice. 
• Clarence Donnelley, 62 of Liberty – Failure to provide a required photograph.
•  William Everett, 38 of Harris, – Failure to provide a required photograph.
•  Charles Foreman, 46 of Rock Hill – Failure to provide a required photograph and complete the annual address verification.
•  Brian Keebler, 58 of Bloomingburg – Failure to provide a required photograph, failure to complete the annual address verification and failure to report a change of sex.
•  Michael Eason, 44 of Liberty – Failure to provide a required photograph.
•  Marvin Perry, 37 of Liberty – Failure to provide a required photograph.
•  Billiejack Szezoark, 37 of Thompsonville – Failure to provide a required photograph.
•  Alex Amoroso, 59 of Yulan – Failure to register and failure to complete annual address verification.
•  Donald Whitted, 65 of Ferndale – Failure to complete the annual address verification.

 The following suspect was sent to the county jail in lieu of $30,000 bail:

•  Randall Brown, 57 of Fallsburg – Failure to provide a required photograph.

 The following suspects were released under NY State’s Bail Reform Law:

•  James Brush, 35 of Barryville – Failure to complete the annual address verification.
•  Ernest Westfall, 48 of Wurtsboro – Failure to complete the annual address verification.
•  Gregory Joyce, 34 of Livingston Manor – Failure to complete the annual address verification.
•  Samuel Terwilliger, 37 of Jeffersonville – Failure to complete the annual address verification.

 Sheriff Mike Schiff acknowledged Deputy Ryan Lowe who coordinated the operation and thanked the other members of the Sheriff’s Office who did the leg work to apprehend these suspects. The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office currently monitors 133 registered sex offenders across the county. The public is reminded that all of the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law. NY State law prohibits harassment of these individuals based of their status as registered sex offenders.