Sex offender released in Sawyer County

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(WEAU) - The Sawyer County Sheriff's Department is alerting people to a sex offender release.

It says John Whiteman, 45, moved to a home on Jasek Road in the Town of Couderay Thursday. Whiteman was convicted of 2nd degree sexual assault with use of force in 1996, and forcible rape in 1991.

He will be electronically monitored.

 
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