Paducah police arrest man accused of failure to comply with sex offender registry

PADUCAH, Ky. (KBSI) – Paducah police arrested a man on warrants charging him with parole violation and failure to comply with the sex offender registry (second or greater offense).

Adam Hicks, 44, had been released to a halfway house in Paducah.

Police arrested him in the 400 block of Audubon Drive in Paducah at 3:04 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.

He is accused of violating his parole and for failing to comply with the sex offender registry after he was found at a local church that has a daycare, according to the Paducah Police Department.

Hicks was arrested after Paducah police received a call that he was at the church requesting money for a bus ticket to Bowling Green.

Hicks was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, ages 5 and 9, in Warren County in 2003. He later was convicted of felony theft by unlawful taking, also in Warren County. He pleaded guilty in 2016 for failing to comply with the sex
offender registry.

Hicks was released to the Paducah halfway house on Feb. 21, 202. Police say he walked away from the facility on Sunday.

On Monday, probation and parole officials obtained a warrant charging him with parole violation.

They notified Det. Chelsee Breakfield with the Paducah Police Department that Hicks was non-compliant with the sex offender registration and she obtained a warrant charging him with failure to comply.

Hicks was arrested after police were notified that he was at the local church on Tuesday.

He was booked into McCracken County Regional Jail.