Convicted Predatory Offender Arrested Outside Rosemount High School

A man who was convicted of kidnapping in 2009 when he was 18 was arrested last week in Rosemount for failing to keep authorities notified of his whereabouts.

Timothy Richard Bedford, 21, is charged with failure to register as a predatory offender, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The charge has a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison. 

Bedford remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $50,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in the case is scheduled July 17 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

Bedford was arrested last week after officials called and said Bedford had been showing up after school and talking to students, causing some parents to become concerned, according to the criminal complaint.

Because of Bedford’s conviction for kidnapping, he is required by law to keep law enforcement informed of his current address. Authorities had him listed as homeless in Minneapolis, but Bedford had recently told his probation officer that he was living in Rosemount.

When Bedford showed up at Rosemount High School on June 26, school authorities asked him to leave, and he was confronted by police.

Bedford told officers that he was staying at a homeless shelter in St. Paul, then said he was living in Minneapolis, according to the complaint. He then allegedly admitted that he was staying with a girlfriend in Apple Valley.

After his kidnapping conviction—for which he served a year in prison—Bedford was convicted in 2010 for failing to register as a predatory offender. He served two years on that conviction.