NewsMay 31, 2007
Search for accused sex offender ends in Poplar Bluff
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A search for Scott City man wanted on child sex charges ended Thursday with his arrest by the Butler County Sheriff's Department. The man, Charles E. Rothman, 65, became the subject of an intense search late Wednesday and Thursday morning after his overturned boat was found in the Diversion Channel...
By Peter Wylie and Rudi kEller ~ Southeast Missourian
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A search for Scott City man wanted on child sex charges ended Thursday with his arrest by the Butler County Sheriff's Department.
The man, Charles E. Rothman, 65, became the subject of an intense search late Wednesday and Thursday morning after his overturned boat was found in the Diversion Channel.
On Thursday morning Scott County prosecutors charged Rothman with nine felony counts of statutory rape and statutory sodomy. Police sources said they knew Rothman was aware of their investigation before his disappearance Wednesday.
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The Scott City Police Department tracked Rothman to a business in Poplar Bluff, Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs said.
A deputy went to the location and detained him, Dobbs said.
He referred all other questions about the investigation to the Scott City police.
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