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A convicted sex offender faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and indecent exposure in multiple cases in Palm Beach County, and the Broward Sheriff’s Office said there may be more victims.
Verwayne Alexander, 64, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested in Palm Beach County on April 2 on one count of sexual assault, one count of kidnapping and four counts of indecent exposure, stemming from separate instances in Delray Beach and Lake Worth Beach in March, according to court records and a statement issued Monday from the Sheriff’s Office.
Before his recent arrest in Palm Beach County, BSO detectives were investigating Alexander in an indecent exposure case in Broward and learned he was an unregistered sexual predator, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday.
Alexander was convicted of sexual battery in 2021 and of sexual battery and kidnapping charges in 1989, both in Palm Beach County, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement database.
A warrant for his arrest was issued on March 10 for one count of failure to register, one count of failure to report and one count of indecent exposure. Alexander was arrested by Riviera Beach Police the same day, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
After that arrest, Alexander was released after posting bail, Broward court records show. That case remains pending, and he had not entered a plea as of Monday.
Then on March 30, Alexander allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman who he had seen walking alone along a road in Lake Worth Beach about 6 a.m., a probable cause affidavit said. The woman told detectives a man stopped his car as she was walking and asked her for directions. When she approached his window to help, he showed her a knife and ordered her to get in the car.
The woman told detectives she followed his demands, and he drove to an industrial area near railroad tracks and parked in a secluded area, where he sexually assaulted her, according to the affidavit. She escaped and ran into an auto body shop, and an employee called 911.
License plate reader cameras identified the suspect’s car as a dark gray 2019 Chevrolet Trax. While PBSO investigated, they learned there was an outstanding warrant in Delray Beach involving the same car, related to four counts of indecent exposure from March 24, the affidavit said.
Delray Beach Police had been investigating Alexander since January after multiple reports of a man driving a Chevrolet Trax in public areas who had lured women toward his car to ask for directions while exposing himself, according to a probable cause affidavit in a separate case. The police department was investigating at least five different cases with Alexander as a suspect, and he was identified in photo line-ups in three of them.
In one case, Alexander is facing charges of sexual battery with a deadly weapon or physical force, attempt to commit sexual battery with a deadly weapon or physical force and kidnapping. He has pleaded not guilty, court records show.
In a separate case, he is facing a charge of failure by a sexual predator to comply with registration paperwork. He had not entered a plea as of Monday.
In three other separate cases, Alexander faces in total six counts of indecent exposure. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges in those cases, court records show.
BSO detectives believe Alexander may have assaulted or exposed himself to other women in Broward County.
Authorities ask anyone with information to call BSO Career Criminal Unit Detective Elaine Seedig at 954-321-4200, submit a tip through the SaferWatch app or anonymously contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477, online at browardcrimestoppers.org or by dialing **8477 from any cellphone.
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