LYNN HAVEN -- Lynn Haven police have arrested a convicted sex offender for not registering a new address after bullying a cable technician and threatening to shoot all of the cable company employees, police reported Wednesday.
Richard Acton St. John, 66, called the cable company Monday because he was receiving more channels than he requested. When the cable guy showed up at his home on Maine Avenue, St. John confronted him and began cursing and screaming at him, according to police reports.
Police said the cable guy left after St. John told him to get off his property or he would shoot him. St. John later called the offices of the cable company and again became outraged, threatening to shoot everyone in the building.
When police investigated the threatening phone call, they discovered St. John was convicted in 1993 of molesting a minor in Alabama. He moved to Bay County, registered at an address on Sunset Avenue, but didn’t notify Bay County authorities of his relocation to Maine Avenue.
St. John was arrested and taken to Bay County Jail for failure to register. Additional charges of assault in connection with the cable confrontation were filed later.