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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wildwood sex offender being held without bond at Sumter County Jail

John Jeremy Pickett
John Jeremy Pickett

A Wildwood sex offender was being held without bond Monday at the Sumter County Detention Center.

John Jeremy Pickett, 51, had been arrested in December by Lake County deputies on a Sumter County warrant charging him with a sex offender violation. He was transferred this past Friday to the jail in Sumter County.

He was convicted of a sex crime in 1997 in Ohio involving a female who was a minor. In 2006, Pickett was convicted of failure to comply with registration requirements.

For the past several months Pickett had been living at The Plantation, a 55-plus active living community on U.S. Hwy. 27 in Leesburg, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

Pickett had also been delivering pizzas in a green Chevy Prism for Papa John’s in Mount Dora. In December, Pickett told his boss at Papa John’s he would not be returning to work until he was able to take care of some “personal issues.” He turned himself into Lake County sheriff’s deputies shortly thereafter.

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