ROCKINGHAM — Another convicted sex offender is accused of not reporting a new address.
Richmond County Jail records show that 50-year-old Christopher Anthony Goins is being held on $10,000 secured bond charged with failing to register as a sex offender. Online court records show the charge as failing to report a new address as a sex offender.
Goins was booked into the jail Aug. 14 and is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 29.
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction appear to show Goins was released from custody the same day he was arrested on the current charge after serving three months for a reimprison violation in Scotland County.
Goins was convicted of felony breaking and entering in Scotland County in January of 2023 and given a suspended sentence. However, his probation was revoked following a conviction in July of that year on charges of failing to register as a sex offender and failing to report a new address in Richmond County.
Records show Goins was incarcerated on July 25, 2023 and released on March 11, 2024 — his address was last verified two days later — prior to the aforementioned reimprisonment on May 16.
According to the N.C. Sex Offender Registry, Goins registered on May 31, 2013 — two days after being convicted in Scotland County on two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of disseminating or exhibiting harmful material to a minor.
At the time of the incidents, Goins was 37 and the child was 15, according to the registry.
Goins was given a suspended sentence in that case.
Records show that Goins has a history of break-ins.
His first conviction was in 1991 for breaking and entering vehicles and breaking and entering in Richmond County. His probation was revoked the following year and he served 15 months behind bars.
While serving that sentence, Goins was convicted in Scotland County of felony larceny and two counts of misdemeanor breaking and entering. His probation was revoked less than a month after his release from prison on the Richmond County conviction and he was incarcerated for nearly 28 months.
Goins was also convicted in Scotland County on the following charges:
- 2000 – driving while license revoked (suspended sentence)
- 2005 – breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering (probation revoked, leading to consecutive sentences from May 2006-January 2008); driving while license revoked and violation of local ordinance (imprisoned from October 2005-January 2006)
- 2011 – two counts of using profane, harassing or threatening language in a phone call and one count of driving while license revoked (imprisoned April-July 2011)
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
