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Police arrest sex offender with multiple dating profiles

A Berkeley Springs man convicted of second-degree rape in 1997 in Washington County was arrested on February 25 for failure to register as a sex offender.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court by Trooper B.A. Meyers with the West Virginia State Police, information was received about a man who is a registered sex offender having a dating profile.

The man, identified as James R. Yost, 47, was living on Sandmine…