WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - A registered sex offender who has escaped the local law by fleeing the country might finally be brought to justice, if Williamson County has its way.
On Thursday (December 27, 2018), Williamson County prosecutor Brandon Zanotti filed a Class 3 felony charge against Jordan McGuire of Violating Sex Offender Registry.
While the effort is likely done as a matter of rote (there were several other alleged non-registered registered sex offenders in Williamson, which you can view here at Felony Friday), it nevertheless is movement in a case that's spanned several years - almost four, which is when McGuire became a registered sex offender in the state of Wyoming, a few months after this incident in 2014. McGuire, who first became a part of our coverage more than 10 years ago after an incident in Saline County at Southeastern Illinois College, has been allegedly offending for years prior to his ultimate conviction. That conviction was merely a misdemeanor, but it got him registered in Wyoming and when he came back to Illinois, he was required to register here, too.
In an attempt to evidently cover up this situation, McGuire - who is an accomplished music performer but somehow has managed to fancy himself some sort of Zac Efron-wannabe - attempted a name change in Jackson County, where he was residing at the time. But when the judge disallowed the change, McGuire fled the country rather than register as a sex offender - and was ultimately discovered in Europe, where he fit right in as not only a good-looking queerboy, but also a master of a number of languages.
That was in 2015 (if you have an online membership to the e-Edition, you can read all the hotlinked articles in full at McGuire's name). And upon realization that McGuire was not only out of the area but not on the continent, it appeared authorities were going to give him a pass...unlike other registered sex offenders that wouldn't benefit from such a thing.
Then this week, perhaps as a year-end symbolic gesture, Williamson County State's Attorney Brandon Zanotti made his filing, citing an address for McGuire as a prefab modular home on Arctic Fox Drive in Carterville (likely his mom's digs). Apparently it's hoped that because this is his last known address in the area, and if mom (who is as obsessed with covering over her boi's doings as he is, if her constant activity on the now-defunct topix is any indication) gets word to him that there's now a warrant for his arrest to answer to the charge, he might save everyone (including himself) some grief and turn himself in.
Or not. He's been gone for almost four years; personally, we don't expect for him to emerge anytime soon. But one can never tell. Since we were able to track him down three years ago, maybe someone will get fed up enough and send a bounty hunter after swishy lil Jord...and bring him back to face the same law everyone else in this country has to face.