Manhunt moves to Colorado with cash reward

A nationwide manhunt for fugitive sex offender now is centered in Colorado, U.S. Marshals said today.

Robbi Potter, who is believed traveling with a 3-year-old girl and her mother, was spotted at an Ampride gas station in Stratton, on Interstate 70 about 147 miles east of Denver.

"He is a convicted sex offender — the most dangerous kind — committing sex offenses against minors," said Andrew Deserto, a chief deputy U.S. Marshal in Ohio. "We want to get the little girl and want the guy caught and put him where he belongs."

Potter, 27, is wanted on both state and federal warrants for parole violations as well as escape for walking away from a halfway house for sex offenders in Mansfield, Ohio on May 28, three days after he was released from prison.

Potter is a Tier III sex offender, Ohio's most serious designation.

The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Fugitive Task Force is offering a $10,000 reward for

Haylee Donathan (U.S. Marshals Service)information leading to Robbi Potter's arrest. Anyone with information should call the toll free hotline, (866) 4WANTED. Callers may remain anonymous.

Investigators believe Potter is driving a 1988 Chevrolet pickup truck that is black and green. It may have Ohio license plates ENS9729, although news accounts report that Candace Watson has been known to switch plates on vehicles.

DENIED PAROLE!

Thank you to everybody who wrote letters to the Ohio Parole Board!

Jeffrey Talani was denied parole today.

"I was coerced"

Meet Jeffrey Talani.

Jeffrey Talani, chief of police and child molester.

Back in 1988 Jeffrey Talani plead guilty to molesting two little girls, just babies of 4 and 8.

Being charged with 20 counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition, child endangering and drug abuse. Talani claimed "I was coerced into pleading for something I didn't do" and "I would rather die than to hurt a child". (Gee, where have we heard THAT before?)

Talani was sentenced to 4 to 10 years on one count of sexual battery and 2 years each on three counts of sexual imposition. He was also sentenced to 6 more months for obstructing justice.

Talani (the man who would rather die that hurt a child) is up for parole. The man who these little girls trusted, the whole community trusted, could be out in just a few weeks. Do you want this man living in your neighborhood? Do you want this man around children? Your children?

I know the victims and their families don't. This is what one of the victims had to say "it has been 21 years since he has been incarcerated, the information on what happened to me is a vivid now as it was then. It never goes away."

Lets help keep this creep behind bars where he belongs.

Ohio Parole Board, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43222.

Inmate: Jeffrey Talani, A205158