A registered sex offender was taken into custody at his Twentynine Palms home Monday. The Sheriff’s Department said Deputies Dominick and Casey received information that Joseph Bickel, 34, a convicted sex offender from Missouri, had been living in the city of Twentynine Palms for a couple months and had not registered with local authorities. Monday, the deputies checked a trailer at the 5300 block of Adobe Road and identified the man in the trailer as Bickel. Joseph Bickel was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender in the State of California, and was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail with a bail set at $25,000.
