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Registered Sex Offender Arrested For Peering In Hotel Window

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Published: December 27, 2008

Tampa - A man hiding beneath a woman's motel room window early this morning turned out to be a registered sex offender on probation until 2015, police said.

Edward R. Haycraft is being held without bail at the Orient Road Jail today. He is charged with two misdemeanor offenses – loitering and prowling, and giving a false name to a law-enforcement officer – as well as violating his felony probation from Palm Beach County on burglary and rape charges.

Tampa police officers found Haycraft, 51, hiding behind a small tree beneath an open window at the Swan Motel, 6407 N. Nebraska Ave., about 4:08 this morning, an affidavit states. The officers noted in the document that a woman in the room was naked at the time.

Confronted, Haycraft "could not reasonably explain his reason for being in this location," the affidavit states. He also gave the officers a different name.

A computer check with a photograph identified the man as Haycraft, the affidavit states. Haycraft is a registered sex offender on probation until 2015, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Corrections.

As a condition of his probation, Haycraft is under a curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., the affidavit states.

Since November, his address with FDLE has been an apartment at 6601 N. Nebraska Ave., about two blocks from the motel, records show.

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