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The streak is over! A level III predatory offender has been released to a Duluth neighborhood that isn’t the West End

The Duluth Police Dept. announced on Tuesday a level III predatory offender has been released and is living on the 700 block of Boundary Avenue in Duluth’s Bayview Heights neighborhood, on the Duluth/Proctor border. It marks the end of a streak in which eight consecutive sex offenders released in Duluth chose to live in the West End neighborhood. This was over a span of exactly one year, going by the dates of DPD news releases — April 8, 2013 to April 8, 2014.

Here is the West End crew that made up the sex-offender district that has finally been broken.

Amen Wind Toomey, vicinity of 22nd Ave. W. & Third St.
Erich Deolax Riker, vicinity of 20th Ave. W. & Superior St.
Eric Pegues, vicinity of 22nd Ave. W. & Second St.
David Robert Houle, vicinity of 20th Ave. W. & Superior St.
Dennis James Armstrong, vicinity of 20th Ave. W. & Superior St.
James Vaughn-Bey, vicinity of 22nd Ave. W. & Fifth St.
Gregory Allen Bye, vicinity of 20th Ave. W. & Superior St.
Eric Jason Dahlberg, vicinity of 25th Ave. W. & First St.