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MARTINEZ -- Convicted sexual predator Cary Verse will be allowed to return to his Bay Point home under certain conditions after he violated the terms of his release by repeatedly having a 14-year-old boy in his car, a Contra Costa County judge ruled today. Verse will be allowed to live in the cottage beginning June 11 because the medical director at Atascadero State Hospital has concluded that "he would not be a danger to himself or others," said Superior Court Judge John Kennedy, agreeing with a recommendation by Deputy District Attorney Brian Haynes. "Based on all the evidence before me,...

ATASCADERO - Early evening curfews bother Cary Verse. So does carrying a GPS device and getting official permission to give someone a ride in his car. The four-time sex offender said he has found himself in a locked hospital again because many of the rules he had to follow while living in society were too strict. He grew frustrated with them. While he lived in his own apartment in Bay Point, he hurt nobody. He had no desire to, he said. But he chafed under the conditions of his release. His return to Atascadero State Mental Hospital came after police...

MARTINEZ -- Convicted sexual predator Cary Verse should remain at a state hospital for violating the terms of his release by having a 14-year-old boy in his car and for trying to hide his associations with people with a criminal history, a Contra Costa County judge ruled today. Verse, 36, bowed his head and covered his face with his hands after Superior Court Judge John Kennedy said the registered sex offender needs additional inpatient treatment at Atascadero State Hospital, from where he was conditionally released in February 2004. A jury trial was scheduled for April 30 to determine if Verse...

Convicted sex offender Cary Verse was punished twice for breaking the rules of his conditional release in the months before police jailed him Saturday for driving with a 14-year-old boy in his car, a social worker who supervises him said in court documents. The director of the program that supervises Verse had punished him twice in the past 18 months for associating with people who had criminal arrests or convictions. "Mr. Verse's behavior demonstrates a serious and continuous lack of recognition for high risk behaviors and situations," Liberty Health Care director Jayne Shale said in a declaration filed in Superior...

Police took convicted sex offender Cary Verse into custody on suspicion of violating a condition of his release into the community, authorities reported Monday. Walnut Creek police stopped Verse, 36, at 1:10 p.m. Saturday in connection with a mechanical violation on his car and found he was driving with a 14-year-old male passenger, Walnut Creek police Lt. Tim Schultz said in a news release. As one of the conditions of his 2004 release from Atascadero State Mental Hospital, Verse is not allowed to drive with any male passenger without authorization from Liberty Behavioral Health Corp., which contracts with the county...

MARTINEZ - Police have arrested convicted sex offender Cary Verse on suspicion on violating the conditions of his release, authorities said. Walnut Creek Police arrested 36-year-old Cary Verse at 2 p.m. on Saturday, a spokesman at the County Jail said. Verse has lived on the Bay Point property of two defense attorneys since February 2005. Under the conditions of his release from Atascadero State Mental Hospital in 2004, he may leave his home for work and to see friends and therapists, only during authorized times and in the company of authorized people. He must carry a GPS tracking device. Sheriff's...