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Sex offender charged with not filing address change, larceny

ROCKINGHAM — A convicted sex offender is accused of not giving law enforcement his new address — and theft.

Richmond County Jail records show 47-year-old Christopher Anthony Goins was booked at 3:38 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21 on charges of failing to report a new address as a sex offender, breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering.

Goins first registered as a sex offender in 2013 following a conviction on two counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor in Scotland County. According to the N.C. Sex Offender Registery, he was 37 at the time of the crime and the victim was 15.

Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show Goins was also convicted at the time of disseminating or exhibiting harmful material to a minor.

Goins was sentenced to 24 months of probation, records show.

The registry shows his last address was verified June 9, 2020, and has the registering sheriff listed as out of state.

Goins is being held on a combined $20,000 secured bond — $10,000 on the registration charge and $10,000 in the larceny and breaking and entering charges. His court dates are scheduled for Sept. 1 on the latter charges and Sept. on the former charge.

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Online court records appear to show no other pending charges in the state.

DPS records show Goins had a criminal past prior to his sex crimes.

Goins was first convicted in Richmond County of breaking and entering and breaking and entering vehicles in 1991.

(Note: State records list the charge as misdemeanor breaking and entering but show it as a felony conviction.)

He was given probation, which was revoked a year later, landing him behind bars for 15 months.

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While serving that sentence, Goins was convicted in Scotland County on two counts of misdemeanor breaking and entering and one count of felony larceny — and he was sent back to prison for two years and three months, a month after his release when his probation was revoked.

Goins’ next conviction was in 2000 for driving while license revoked.

In April 2005, Goins was convicted of breaking and entering (again, titled as a misdemeanor but classified as a felony) and larceny after breaking and entering.

Six months later, Goins was convicted again for driving with a revoked license and for a violation of a local ordinance. He served roughly 3.5 months.

Three months after his release, Goins’ probation on the April 2005 conviction was revoked and he served 22 months in consecutive sentences.

Goins was convicted in 2011 on two counts of using profane, harassing or threatening language in a phone call and driving with a revoked license, resulting in a 3-month incarceration.



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