A 19-year-old Blaine County Jail inmate is waiting extradition to Wisconsin on a felony warrant charging him with failure to register as a sex offender.
Drew N. Jaspers, who is wanted in Burnett County, Wis., was arrested in Bellevue shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, after he was pulled over by a Blaine County sheriff's deputy for allegedly speeding through the town.
Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jay Davis said the Wisconsin arrest warrant turned up during a routine check of Jaspers' Wisconsin driver's license number.
A Burnett County Sheriff's Office deputy, who declined to give his name, confirmed that Jaspers is wanted on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender and said Jaspers has waived extradition and will be transported back to Burnett County to face the charge.
By federal law, convicted sex offenders are required to register their address with state authorities. Jaspers was apparently convicted when he was a juvenile because he is not listed on Wisconsin's sex offender registry, which unlike Idaho does not list juvenile offenders.
"The department by law cannot divulge any information that deals with juvenile courts," said John Pipko, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the agency that maintains the state's registry. He said information on Wisconsin's juvenile sex offenders can only be provided to law enforcement agencies.
Convicted juvenile sex offenders in Idaho are not afforded such privacy. The Idaho Sex Offender Registry, which is maintained by the Idaho State Police, lists juvenile offenders complete with photographs. Addresses and dates of birth are also provided, as are the crimes for which they were convicted and where and when the convictions took place.
Davis said he didn't know why Jaspers was in the Wood River Valley or what connections he might have here.
Drew N. Jaspers
