November 4, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

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Man extradited back to Alabama after 17 years on child sex charges

[QRZ has an expired license listing for a Jay Kloss in Auburn, AL as N4CBK – de K4HSM]

A 67-year-old man is in an Alabama jail after 17 years on the run for child sex charges.

John Joseph “Jay” Kloss III was booked into the Jefferson County Jail Thursday evening after U.S. Marshals captured the fugitive July 25 in North Port, Florida in Sarasota County.

A court date has not yet been announced. Kloss is being held without bond.

At the time of his disappearance, Kloss had experience as a HAM Radio operator and in broadcasting HAM Radio over the internet using online repeaters, authorities said.

He had some outdoors experience with specific knowledge of horseshoeing.

Kloss was also wanted by the Northern District of Alabama U.S. Marshals Service for a federal flight to avoid prosecution charge.

Kloss had been a wanted fugitive since Operation FALCON in 2008.

Read more – MSN: http://bit.ly/4n3sXJu