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On January 31, 2013, Lieutenant Cahoon applied for and obtained warrants charging Wallace with eleven additional counts of Indecent Liberties With a Minor.

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    On September 18,
Merrill Wilson Wallace
2012, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a sex offense that occurred in August 2012 at a home on Cedar Lane in Washington, NC. Investigators conducted multiple interviews and learned of additional victims that had contact with the same suspect. The victims were juveniles when the offenses occurred. The oldest reported offense occurred approximately 50 years ago.

    On January 11, 2013, Lieutenant Jamie Cahoon applied for and obtained warrants charging Merrill Wilson Wallace, age 73, of Cedar Lane in Washington, NC with two counts of First Degree Sexual Offense and eight counts of Indecent Liberties With a Minor. Wallace was arrested and brought before Magistrate Donald Sadler. Wallace was held in the Beaufort County Detention Center on a $150,000 secured bond. During a session of District Court on January 18th, Wallace’s bond was reduced to $50,000 secured with a requirement for Pretrial Release Electronic Monitoring. Wallace later posted the bond and was placed on Electronic House Arrest between the hours of 3 pm and 8 am daily.

    On January 31, 2013, Lieutenant Cahoon applied for and obtained warrants charging Wallace with eleven additional counts of Indecent Liberties With a Minor. Wallace turned himself in at the Magistrate’s Office and was given a $20,000 unsecured bond. Wallace was released on the unsecured bond and ordered to remain on Electronic House Arrest. Six different victims have been identified during the investigation.


    Major Kenneth Watson
      Beaufort County Sheriff's Office
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