Yuma County Sheriff issues corrected Level 3 sex-offender notice
YCSO corrected a Level 3 notice for Keith Virgil Winchester in Yuma, publicizing his 2837 W. 1st Street address and urging neighbors to verify the alert.
The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office corrected a Level 3 sex-offender community notification on June 11 for Keith Virgil Winchester, a 53-year-old man listed as living at 2837 W. 1st Street, #10 in Yuma. The revised notice places Winchester in Arizona’s highest community-notification tier, a classification the sheriff’s office says signals the highest perceived risk of reoffending, and it tells residents he is not wanted by the agency at this time.
The correction matters because Arizona law requires level two and level three notifications to be shared beyond law enforcement, including with the surrounding neighborhood, area schools, appropriate community groups and prospective employers. YCSO says the state adopted its Megan’s Law-style community-notification system on June 1, 1996, and that its own process is triggered when a sex offender is released from jail or prison or sentenced to probation. For neighbors near Winchester’s listed address, the immediate practical step is to compare the corrected bulletin with the official county notice and use the registry tools the agency points to for confirmation.
The notice lays out Winchester’s physical description as 5 feet 7 inches tall, 140 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. It also connects the registration requirement to a 1994 Oregon case, in which Winchester was found guilty on February 23, 1994, in Deschutes County Circuit Court in Bend of six counts of sodomy in the third degree, one count of contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor and two counts of furnishing obscene materials to minors. The sheriff’s office said the victims were four male juveniles known to him.
The corrected bulletin adds that Winchester pleaded guilty on January 6, 2026, in Yuma County Superior Court to failure to register as a sex offender and is now on supervised probation for 24 months with Yuma County Adult Probation. YCSO included the standard warning that the notification is meant to inform the public, not to prompt harassment or retaliation. Residents can verify the information through the sheriff’s office notice, OffenderWatch email alerts and location searches, Arizona’s sex-offender registry, and the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website, which allows searches across states, U.S. territories and Indian Country. YCSO’s June 2026 postings show several other Level 3 notices around the same period, underscoring an active enforcement and notification effort across Yuma County.
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