Crime

2 convicted sex offenders recently registered to live in Tacoma. Here are the details

The following convicted sex offenders recently registered to live in Pierce County.

Each is categorized as a Level 3 sex offender — those considered most likely to commit similar crimes. None is wanted by law enforcement officers at this time.

All convicted sex offenders registered to live in Tacoma and Pierce County are listed on the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department’s website at piercesheriff.org.



Paul Brown
Paul Brown Tacoma Police Department

Paul Brown

Age: 49.

Description: 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Registered address: 4300 block of South Cedar Street, Tacoma.

Criminal history: Convicted in 1987 of indecent liberties in Thurston County for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy. Convicted in 1995 of first-degree rape and burglary in Spokane County for physically and sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman.

Sex offender treatment: Brown did not participate in a sex offender treatment program while incarcerated.

For more information: Call detective Christie Yglesias at 253-591-5869 or Nicole Faivre at 253-591-5476.



Theodore Burnett.
Theodore Burnett. Tacoma Police Department

Theodore Burnett

Age: 63.

Description: 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

Registered address: 700 block of South 14th Street, Tacoma.

Criminal history: Convicted in 1978 of third-degree rape for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Convicted in 1994 of first-degree sex abuse for sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl. Convicted in 1993 of first-degree sex abuse and first-degree sodomy in Linn County, Oregon, for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl on at least two occasions.

Sex offender treatment: It is unclear if Burnett participated in a sex offender treatment program while incarcerated.

For more information: Call detective Christie Yglesias at 253-591-5869 or Nicole Faivre at 253-591-5476.

Peter Talbot
The News Tribune
Peter Talbot is a criminal justice reporter for The News Tribune. He started with the newspaper in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C. He also interned for the Oregonian and the Tampa Bay Times. Support my work with a digital subscription
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