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Neighbors score victory against sex offender group home

Neighbors received a major win in their push to get rid of a sex offender group home on McAlpine Lane in east Charlotte.
 
 "We want to see this resolved and see something that works for everybody," Jody Watts said.

A few months after six sex offenders moved into the house, the community wanted them out of their neighborhood.

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Channel 9 was the first to tell them Friday that a second offender is now gone.

"I'll believe it when I see it," Jason Blanchard said.
 
Watts said she hasn't been notified by Rep. Rodney Moore or anyone else about what the situation is.
 
Eyewitness News learned Friday that Matthew Mendez, who was convicted of indecent liberties with a 15-year-old, has been moved out.

A spokesperson confirmed that the state found a new place for him to live.

Another offender, James Sackett, left the home two weeks ago after he was arrested for being on the property of a nearby preschool.
 
Now four offenders are left and the Department of Public Safety told Channel 9 it's working to get new places for each of them to stay and get them out of that house as quickly as possible.

"I'm sure they are trying to relocate it knowing it wasn't a good place to put it in first place," Blanchard said. "(It's) probably also hard to find a place to put six of those people in one residential area."
 
Neighbors have been riled up since learning that a halfway house for offenders was placed here without their knowledge. They said they just want to be kept informed.

"That's all we wanted from the beginning," Watts said.

There is no specific time frame on when the others will be moving out, but it will happen when authorities find a place to stay for them.

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