Coffee County Sex Offender Arrested for Violating Residency, Employment Restrictions

DOUGLAS, GA – Jeremiah Hampton Tarlton, 41, a registered sex offender from Douglas, Georgia, was arrested on July 30, 2025, by the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Unit. Tarlton was taken into custody for violating Georgia’s sex offender residency and employment restrictions.

The investigation began when the Sex Offender Unit received a tip Tuesday afternoon, indicating that Tarlton was employed at a location within close proximity to a place of worship. Detectives promptly followed up on the tip and confirmed that Tarlton’s workplace violated the restrictions placed on registered sex offenders in Georgia.

Under Georgia Code O.C.G.A. 42-1-15, registered sex offenders are prohibited from residing, working, or loitering within 1,000 feet of child care facilities, schools, school bus stops, or places where minors congregate—including churches and other places of worship. Violating this law is a felony, punishable by a minimum of one year and up to thirty years imprisonment for each offense.

Tarlton has a history of sex offender registration violations. He was convicted of Child Molestation in Atkinson County in April 2012, serving prison time from June 2014 and being released early in June 2021. In September 2021, he was convicted in Ben Hill County for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, serving only six months before release in June 2022. Again, in August 2023, he was convicted in Ben Hill County for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, serving one year and six months before his most recent release from Wheeler Correctional Facility on January 8, 2025.

Tarlton was arrested without incident at his residence and transported to the Coffee County Pre-Trial Detention Center, where he remains in custody pending further legal proceedings.