NEWS RELEASE
Morrison County Sheriff’s Office
December 17, 2024
Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen announced that his office, in cooperation with all local police departments in the county, have recently completed the annual Predatory Offender Registration (POR) verifications for Morrison County. Each year the sheriff’s office organizes a verification check for all predatory offenders who are on the registry and residing within the county. Only those offenders who have been sentenced to prison and who were released after January 1, 1997 have been assigned a risk level. Juvenile offenders and offenders sentenced to probation are not assigned a risk level. Level 1 offenders are those deemed by Department of Corrections officials as those least likely to re-offend while Level 3 offenders are considered most likely to re-offend.
During the most recent round of checks, multiple predatory offenders were checked in Morrison County. 68 predatory offenders were checked by the Morrison County Sheriff’s Office, Pierz Police Department, Motley Police Department and Royalton Police Department. Of that number; 20 were Level 1 offenders, 8 were Level 2, 1 was Level 3 and 39 offenders were not assigned a risk level. 41 predatory offenders were checked by the Little Falls Police Department, which are not part of the breakdown.
All but one individual was found to be compliant with conditions imposed upon them. 38-year-old Gerald Dean Bollig has pending charges for failing to register his current address, which is a felony. Sheriff Larsen stated that law enforcement worked diligently to verify the information of all registered predatory offenders within Morrison County. The process is essential for community safety as it is important for us to keep tabs on the predatory offender registry. “I feel it is extremely important that these people remain aware that we know who they are and our office will continue to hold them accountable.”