A convicted child molester was arrested Tuesday after his father called 911 to report he was holding family members hostage at a trailer park in northern Athens-Clarke County.
The family members fled the trailer by the time officers arrived, and 31-year-old Darrell Allen Green was arrested after police found him hiding under a bed.
He was taken into custody by Athens-Clarke County police on two outstanding arrest warrants, one for an alleged probation violation and the other for failing to register as a sex offender, Athens-Clarke County police said. He possibly was under the influence of methamphetamine at the time, according to police.
According to the Georgia Sex Offender Registry, Green was convicted of aggravated child molestation in 2008. The registry does not indicate the county in which he was convicted, and there are no sex offender records for Green at the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse.
He does, however, have two dozen cases filed in the local Superior and State courts over just the past four years. Some of those are pending felony cases, like a January 2015 Superior Court indictment that charges Green with aggravated assault for allegedly strangling a woman with whom he has a child in common.
A probation warrant for Green’s arrest was issued last month, in connection with his conviction in a 2015 family violence case.
Green has had other family violence cases, including one from a 2013 arrest for allegedly punching his brother in the eye, breaking off a piece of wood from his mother’s deck and threatening his brother with it.
The case was dismissed after the Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Office declined to prosecute in the wake of the death of Green’s brother.
Green was registered with the Georgia Sex Offender Registry as living at 130 Anderson Lane, but after a Dec. 23 residency check he was listed as an absconder, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Following his arrest Tuesday, Green was booked into jail with his address being in the Reynolds Mobile Home Park on Nowhere Road.
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