Sex Offender Registers as Bucoda Resident

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A level three sex offender recently registered to live in Bucoda, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

John Thomas Vandervort, 39, is required to register due to a 2009 conviction in Thurston County for third-degree rape of a child and third-degree rape. He was sentenced to five years in prison. 

Vandervort

allegedly had sexual contact with 14- and 15-year-old girls.

Vandervort plans to live in the 400 block of South Wright Street in Bucoda. He is described as a white male standing 5-foot-8 and weighing 190 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. 

For more information on registered sex offenders in Thurston County, go to www. co.thurston.wa.us/sheriff.