Two of the men on the list of "Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders" from the Department of Public Safety are back behind bars. One was arrested in north Texas last week while the other surrendered to police in Galveston.
Phillip Mark Ward, age 59, was apprehended at a shelter in Fort Worth on February 8th. He had been convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a child in 1992 and sentenced to prison.
He was released in 2017 on parole. He was placed on the "Most Wanted" list in March of 2021 when he violated his parole and failed to register as a sex offender.
In the other case, 44-year-old Joe Louis Hernandez turned himself in at the Galveston Police Department. He had been on the "Most Wanted" list since January of 2021 when he failed to comply with the sex offender registration requirements.
Hernandez had been convicted of three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child in 1998.
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