A convicted sex offender tried to fake his own death to avoid registering, an Arizona sheriff said this week.
Benjamin Hollins, 50, was arrested Tuesday, around seven months after he allegedly had a woman falsely say he jumped to his death from the Roosevelt Bridge, near the dam of the same name, in Arizona, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said.
“Now, a lot of resources were wasted looking for his body, which was clearly not found, because he wasn’t dead,” Sheriff Mark Lamb said in a video statement released on social media.
Hollins was being held at the Pinal County jail Saturday, according to jail records. Court records did not appear to list an attorney for him, and phone calls to numbers associated with him in public records…
