Yuma — The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) has released the following information pursuant to Community Notice on the Sex Offenders Act, ARS 13-3825. The offenders in this publication live within Yuma County. It is the responsibility of the highest law enforcement agency with jurisdiction in which the offender resides to notify the community.
Notification must be made when certain sex offenders are released from Arizona State Penitentiary, accepted under an interstate agreement, or released back into the community from county prisons. Violators fall into her three levels: Level 1 (low risk to the community), Level 2 (medium risk to the community), and Level 3 (high risk to the community).
The individual represented in this notice, 61-year-old Dale Michael Hansen, has been convicted of a sex offense allowing community notice. Dale Hansen lives at West 5th Street and S. Avenue C in Yuma, Arizona, he informed YCSO. He is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He is not wanted by the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office at this time.
On October 24, 1986, Hansen filed a petition not to prosecute in El Dorado County Superior Court, South Lake Tahoe, California, on one count of child nuisance/groping. . He was sentenced to his three-year probation with three years of probation. His victim was a boy under the age of 14.
On September 22, 1995, Hansen was found in San Bernardino Superior Court, Big Bear, California, on two counts of child harassment/molestation and attempted lewd or molestation of a child under the age of 14. pleaded guilty to one count of He was sentenced to his 13 years in prison by the San Diego Department of Corrections. His victims were male boys and female boys.
Dale Hansen is considered a Level 2 sex offender with a medium chance of recidivism.
This notice is not intended to increase fear. Rather, it is our belief that an informed community is a safer community. YCSO has no legal authority to dictate where sex offenders may or may not live. Unless restricted by court order, the criminal is constitutionally free to live wherever he pleases. Citizens may not use this information to threaten, intimidate, or harass sex offenders. Sex offenders live in our community all the time. However, Megan’s law allows law enforcement to share this information with you.
YCSO would like to remind the public about registered sex offenders and community notification program OffenderWatch. To sign up for free email alerts or search for sex offenders in your area, visit the YCSOOffenderWatch page.
If you have information about this or any other criminal’s current criminal activity, please call the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office at (928) 783-4427.
