DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - A Davenport sex offender arrested Friday on a registry violation is a person of interest in the disappearance of 10-year-old
Breasia Terrell, according to a court document filed Monday afternoon.
Russell Dircks, the court-appointed attorney for
Henry Earl Dinkins, confirmed the connection in a motion to withdraw filed in Scott County District Court.
Dircks wrote in the motion that he should be removed from the case because his wife is a teacher who previously had Terrell in her class and “her school is involved with the family.”
That information “would create a conflict of interest with Mr. Dinkins,” Dircks wrote in the motion.
According to court records, Judge Henry Latham granted the motion and appointed attorney Jack Dusthimer to represent Dinkins.
Dinkins, 47, was arrested Friday on a charge of sex offender registration violation second or subsequent offense, a Class D felony.
Earlier that day, Terrell was reported missing. Police say she was last seen in the 2700 block of East 53rd Street in Davenport.
According to an arrest affidavit, Davenport officers executed a search warrant at an apartment in the 2700 block of East 53rd Street in connection with a missing person investigation.
The affidavit did not say which missing person investigation the search warrant was related to.
Court document: Davenport sex offender ‘person of interest’ in 10-year-old’s disappearance