Registered sex offender convicted of 2 felonies after violating law, visiting park - WLOS
MACON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — A Macon County jury convicted a registered sex offender earlier this week after a GPS tracking unit showed he violated the law in 2019 by spending time at the Macon County Recreation Park.
The jury convicted Archie Picklesimer, 52, of Highlands, on two felony counts of registered sex offender on child premises, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said Friday, March 25, 2022.
A GPS tracking unit alerted a probation and parole officer that Picklesimer went twice on July 4, 2019 to the recreation park which located near Franklin on Georgia Road (US 441 south). The officer then notified Macon County deputies.
Registered sex offenders in the state of North Carolina are not allowed on property where children frequently congregate, such as recreation parks.
Not only that, but in Picklesimer's case specifically, Macon County has a specific local ordinance that prohibits sex offenders at the county's recreation park.
After Picklesimer moved to Macon County in 2018 and registered as a sex offender (he was convicted in Georgia in 2012), he initialed a document stating he understood N.C. law about not being allowed on certain public properties. Officials said he also signed a form acknowledging he understood Macon County's local ordinance.
“There’s no excuse for Mr. Picklesimer’s pretense that he did not understand the law, and jury members required just 30 minutes of deliberation to render their guilty verdicts,” the district attorney said.
Picklesimer was convicted in May 2012 in Rabun County, Georgia on two counts of child molestation. He served six years in prison there before moving to Macon County in November 2018.
Because this North Carolina conviction violates the conditions of Picklesimer’s parole from prison in Georgia, he will serve the remaining 14 years of his 20-year sentence in that state.
Chief Resident Superior Court Judge Bill Coward sentenced Picklesimer to serve 8-19 months in prison, consecutively, for each of the two counts -- the maximum time allowed under the state’s structured sentencing law.
Assistant District Attorney Jim Moore prosecuted the case.
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