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KINSTON, N.C. (AP) — Police in Kinston have arrested a registered sex offender who they say went into the designated children's section of the Kinston/Lenoir County Library last weekend.
Authorities tell local media outlets that 29-year-old Anthony Earl Briggs was inside the library for about four hours on Sunday.
Officers said they found drugs on Briggs and originally charged him with possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana and resisting a public officer. On Tuesday, he was charged with sex offender on a child's premises and violating his probation.
Briggs is in the Lenoir County jail under a $30,000 bond on the sex offender charge. Jail records don't show whether he has an attorney.
Briggs was convicted of felony sex charges in August 2006 and paroled in November 2014.
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