Homeless sex offender with history of failure to register arrested again

An apparently homeless sex offender with a long history of violating reporting requirements was arrested again for the same offense on Friday following a traffic stop in which he was a passenger.

Quincy Dewayne Loudermill, 56, who lists his address as City Streets, was taken into custody shortly after 12:30 p.m. and charged with failure to comply with sex offender registration and reporting requirements, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. He had a warrant out for his arrest for failure to appear.

Loudermill pleaded not guilty in Garland County District Court on Monday and his felony review hearing is scheduled for Aug. 16. He remained in custody Tuesday with bail set at $11,000.

According to court and criminal records, Loudermill was convicted on December 22, 1997, of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. He is a Level 3 sex offender and is classified as a repeat offender. He also has a “strong antisocial, violent or predatory personality.”

He was sentenced to two years in prison in 2001 for failure to register, again to four years in prison in 2007, again to ten years in prison on probation in 2008, and again to six years in prison in 2013. Last year he was sentenced to two years’ probation for failure to register and burglary.

According to the probable cause affidavit in Friday’s arrest, Hot Springs police stopped a gray 2016 Jeep Cherokee in the 100 block of Meadowland Street and a computer check revealed that the passenger, identified as Loudermill, had a warrant for failure to appear and was a “delinquent” sex offender.

On May 23, Loudermill came to the HSPD to confirm his information and signed papers agreeing to return in person no later than June 23 to reconfirm his information. Sex offenders who are listed as homeless must re-register every 30 days under sex offender regulations.

Loudermill allegedly failed to verify his information on June 23 and had not returned to HSPD by July 5, when he was taken into custody, making him 10 business days past the required registration date. The affidavit noted his previous arrests and convictions for the same offense.