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Monday, July 16, 2012  Syracuse Police arrested a convicted level three sex offender Saturday morning for trying to climb into his 21-year-old female neighbor's apartment and rape her.

Monday, May 21, 2012  A level three sex offender has received his sentence after admitting he lured a nine-year-old girl out of her Syracuse home last summer.

Friday, April 27, 2012  A registered level 3 sex offender will spend more than a decade in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he kidnapped a little girl and tried to rape her.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  An upstate New York substitute teacher has pleaded guilty to the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl he was tutoring.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011  The legal fight continues over a Cayuga County man accused of attacking two workers at an Auburn prison.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011  UPDATE: The convicted sex offender accused of luring the young daughter of a family friend out of her bedroom window was arraigned Tuesday morning in Syracuse City Court.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011  Oneida County Sheriff's deputies arrested James Peterson on attempted rape charges.