The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office has located a high risk sex offender who Friday from Cordilleras Mental Health Facility in Redwood City.
Derrick Sanders, 34, was found in San Francisco after police developed leads based on tips from the community, the sheriff's office announced Saturday morning. He was taken into custody.
Around 9 a.m. Saturday someone in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf noticed a man panhandling near Beach and Powell streets who looked like the escaped parolee who had been in the news, according to the sheriff's office.
San Francisco police responded to the area and found Sanders and took him into custody.
He was booked at the San Francisco County Jail where was awaiting transport to the San Mateo County Jail, sheriff's officials said.
Sanders, a transient who frequents both San Mateo and Alameda counties, has a history of violence, weapons and sex offenses and currently faces a misdemeanor charge for an alleged sex offense against a minor in San Mateo County, as well as a parole violation, Schumaker said.
Sanders was discovered missing by staff at Cordilleras Center during rounds which were conducted during the early morning hours Friday.
Bay City News Service contributed to this article.
Now we can breath easier.
I just hope the Sheriffs department does not sweep this one under the table. The people in our neighborhood derserves better!!!!!!!!!
If Derrick was able to escape the mental institution and go all the way to SF, i wonder if he's crazy or just pretending to be one (ala Jack Nicholson in "One flew ...")
Dont you feel that someone with mental health issues, and a history as a sexual preditor should be put in a secure facility? If he was placed in a private facility with no security is appalling!! My home is less then a mile away from this place. I have children that play in our neighborhood, and now I have to worry about who the DA is placing in my neighborhood. Someone needs to take responsibility & take steps this will not happen again. I feel that people that have these issues need all the help we can give them, but I also feel that the people in our neighborhood deserve to feel safe in their own homes. This problem needs to be adressed & the people of our neighborhood need assurance from the DA and Sherrifs Dept that this will not happen again. They put these people there and need to accept responsibility for this incedent!!
I agreed with your comment. There are parks and schools in that area ; during school, children walk by to and frm school so I don't understand how the DA sends a High Risk Sex offender to this private facility without security. It is hard to believe that the DA and other authorities care more about the conffort of this sex predator than the safety of our children and the Redwood City community.
I agreed with your comment. There are parks and schools in the area; during school days, children walk to and from school so I don't understand how the DA sends a High Risk Sex Offener to this private facility without any security. It is hard to believe that the DA and other authorities care more about the confort of this sex predator than the safety of our children and the community.
But what school is on Edgewood Road? or is it just the neighborhood in your meaning of schools and playgrounds? There is Edgewood Park but I wouldn't let my kids walk because of traffic and no pedestrian crossings.
I don't think so
Let's not forget the good news in this story is that there was quick reporting to the public with a photo, and the information and the public responded. That make 2 cases in San Mateo County solved by the public within 1 day of announcement with no fatalities or property damage that is a huge win for all of us. SMSCO Office should also use Facebook and Twitter
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John Summers Director of services at CMHS " These aren't people who are accused of violent assaults." He didn't know about this description of Derrick Sanders. You would think he would have been informed it it were true.