ROCKINGHAM — A convicted sex offender was briefly back behind bars on a nonviolent charge.
Richmond County Jail records show 42-year-old Samuel Floyd Ingram was booked Thursday on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender. He was released later that afternoon.
Court records list the incident date as Feb. 12. His arrest warrant had not yet been returned to the clerk of court’s office.
Records did not yet list a date for a court appearance on that charge.
According to the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation’s Sex Offender Registry, Ingram was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child in 1999. The incident occured in 1996 when Ingram was 20 years old, however, no age is given for the victim.
The registry also lists a violation for failure to provide a change of address.
Ingram is scheduled to appear in court May 6 for a 2016 probation violation, online court records show.
Records with the N.C. Department of Corrections Division of Adult Correction, which have Ingram’s birth year as 1975 whereas other court records also list 1976, show Ingram has several previous convictions throughout the years.
Prior to the sex crime conviction, Ingram was convicted of several misdemeanors: damage to property (1993); two counts of larceny (1995); and assault on a female (1998).
He was released from prison in February of 2001 after serving 15 months for the indecent liberties conviction.
The following year, Ingram was convicted of possession with intent to sell a Schedule II controlled substance and selling a controlled substance.
He has also been twice convicted of driving while impaired: 2011 in Montgomery County; and 2017 in Richmond County.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
