Sex Offender Pleads Guilty

BATON ROUGE, LA – Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced that Johnny June Mason, Jr., age 48, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court before Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to a one-count indictment charging him with failing to register and update his registration as a sex offender.

Mason was convicted on May 5, 1990, of aggravated rape and aggravated crimes against nature in Orleans Parish District Court, State of Louisiana, and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. Because of this conviction, Mason is required by state and federal law to maintain a sex offender registration in his place of residence. After being released from prison in Louisiana, Mason moved to Houston. Texas.

In June 2016, Mason left his residence in Harris County, Texas, traveled in interstate commerce and established his residence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he lived through May 16, 2017. That month, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a warrant for Mason’s arrest for a parole violation, and in October 2016, a second warrant was issued for his failure to resister as sex offender in Harris, County.

After an extensive investigation, the United States Marshals Service in Baton Rouge located Mason living in an empty apartment off Sharp Lane and arrested him. At the time of his arrest in Baton Rouge, Mason was on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Top Ten Most Wanted Sex Offender’s List.

Mason is scheduled to be sentenced in early November.

This matter is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lyman E. Thornton III and investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.