A violent sex offender on lifetime supervision is in jail after an investigation found he failed to register at his new home in Galloway Township.
Horece McZeke, 44, was arrested last Wednesday, after an ongoing investigation by Pleasantville police led them to his home on Jimmie Leeds Road.
McZeke is required to register where he’s living under Megan’s Law following his conviction in a sexual assault 25 years ago.
He was one of three men who brutally raped and robbed a woman inside her Egg Harbor Township home, Sept. 22, 1996.
Under a plea agreement, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, with no minimum. McZeke’s sentencing was prior to the No Early Release Act, which requires defendants serve at least 85 percent of their term before they are eligible for parole. He was released about 2½ years after his 1998 sentencing.
McZeke is listed as a Tier 3 Megan’s Law offender, the most dangerous of the three-tier system.
Part of that requirement is to register any change of address at least 10 days before moving. But McZeke’s address was still listed as Weymouth Avenue in Ventnor.
The investigation found that he purchased the home at 225 E. Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway Township in June.
No charges have yet been filed in that case.
But McZeke remains jailed on the failure to register charge.
He was scheduled to have a detention hearing Tuesday, but asked that it be postponed while he obtains private counsel.
McZeke also has prior gun and drug convictions.
In 2009, he was pulled over in Atlantic City for failure to stop at a sign. At that time, police found a loaded .357 magnum and 2.9 grams of crack cocaine. He pleaded guilty again, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
He also has a resisting arrest out of Camden County Superior Court from 2006. He was sentenced to 18 months in that case, court records show.
