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Another Texas 10 Most Wanted Captured Sex Offender

                    Friday, 11/22/2024
Melvin Carl Schrader
Up To $3,000 Reward
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RACE: White SEX: Male DOB: 11/25/1969
HEIGHT: 5'9" WEIGHT: 250    
AKA: Carl Schrader, Bubba Schrader
SMT: Scars on left elbow, right arm, and right hand.
FBI #: 563135RA1
SID #: TX05022086
TDC #: 00766287
WANTED FOR: Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements
CCH: Indecency with a Child-Sexual Contact, Fail to Register as a Sex Offender, Public Lewdness, Fraud, Theft of Property, Cruelty to Animals, Sale to Minors-Alcohol
DATE     
CAPTURED: 8/19/2019
CAPTURE  
LOCATION: Waco, Texas
CAPTURING
AGENCY: Texas DPS CID
CAUTION: Subject should be considered ARMED and DANGEROUS!
CAPTURE DETAILS:

Melvin Carl SCHRADER, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, was captured on August 19, 2019, in Waco, Texas. Working off investigative information, DPS Special Agents located and arrested SCHRADER without incident at an apartment complex on the north side of Waco.In the 1990s, SCHRADER was convicted in McLennan County of Indecency with a Child-Sexual Contact after an incident involving a 3-year-old girl.SCHRADER was last discharged from TDCJ prison in 2005 and he is required to register as a sex offender annually for life.SCHRADER had been wanted by the Bellmead Police Department since April 2018, for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements.The arrest was not from a tip received through Texas Crime Stoppers, so no reward will be paid.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of the following methods:
• Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)
• Submit a web tip through the Texas 10 Most Wanted website or Facebook page • Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App
All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.
Callers’ anonymity is guaranteed by law and you could earn up to the CASH REWARD amount listed for each fugitive.
These fugitives should be considered Armed and Dangerous! Never try to apprehend a fugitive yourself.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of the following methods: • Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) • Submit a web tip through the Texas 10 Most Wanted website or Facebook page • Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name. Callers’ anonymity is guaranteed by law and you could earn up to the CASH REWARD amount listed for each fugitive. These fugitives should be considered Armed and Dangerous! Never try to apprehend a fugitive yourself.


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