NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
January 17, 2007
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

SEXUAL PREDATOR NOTIFICATION

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a community Sexual Predator Notification in accordance with the “Public Safety Information Act of 1997.”   

Derrick Alvin Ross (04/19/1980), pictured left, is a registered sexual predator and is currently residing at 122 Willard Road Northwest in Fort Walton Beach within Okaloosa County . Ross is a white male with brown hair and blue eyes. He is six feet tall and weighs 210 pounds. He has a March 2001 conviction for lewd and lascivious acts on a child. The victim’s gender is unknown.

Joseph Russell Albright Jr. (09/11/1979), pictured right, is a registered sexual predator and is now residing at 348 Gladys Street in Fort Walton Beach . Albright is a white male with brown hair and brown eyes. He is six feet tall and weighs 260 pounds. He has a scar and on his left leg and elbow. He has a 1999 conviction in Walton County for lewd and lascivious acts on a child and a 2004 conviction in Walton County for lewd assault and sexual battery on a victim under age sixteen. The victim was female in one incident. The gender in the other is unknown.

         More information about registered sexual predators and sexual offenders, including photographs, can be found on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement web site at www.fdle.state.fl.us. A link to that site is available through the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office web site at www.sheriff-okaloosa.org. The state’s Sexual Offender/Predator Unit can also be reached toll-free at 1-888-357-7332.

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