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Cookeville Man Faces Sex Offender Registry Charges

Joe Allen Garrett faces three counts of violation of the sex offender registry. (Photo: TBI)

A Cookeville man faces three counts of violating the sex offender registry.

Authorities charged 40-year-old Joe Allen Garrett for failure to disclose two unregistered email addresses.

Garrett also possessed a Facebook account under Joseph Garrett.

Officials booked Garrett into the Putnam County Jail on Friday with a $4,500 bond. Garrett has since posted bail.

Garrett was placed onto the Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry following two counts of rape in 1999.

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