High-risk sex offender no longer in Rohnert Park

A high-risk sex offender who was briefly set to be checked into a Petaluma hotel after being released last week, and then again briefly was supposedly staying at a motel in Rohnert Park, is, in fact, now in the custody of state parole agents in an undisclosed rural area, officials said Tuesday.

Jonathan Michael Hoppner, 23, has been convicted seven times of sexual battery in less than a three-year period and is considered at high risk to re-offend. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender in 2015 after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor sexual battery, annoying and molesting a 15-year-old girl and trespassing on the campus of Santa Rosa Junior College, where the crime took place.

He had been suspended from campus following a similar incident in 2013.

Under Megan’s Law, local authorities have the option to warn the public of high-risk sex offenders who are planning to relocate in their jurisdiction. Rohnert Park police reached out to the motel staff Monday night to make sure they knew Hoppner was there, and the motel responded that they had no record of him as a guest. In fact, Hoppner had been taken elsewhere, to an undisclosed rural location, by state parole agents Monday night.

According to the police, Hoppner was involved in no incidents while in Rohnert Park.

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