Registered sex offender arrested after attending Wake County high school basketball game

Wake County deputies arrested a registered sex offender after he attended a basketball game at an Apex high school in December, the Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Stephen Barnabas Holland, 36, of Zebulon was charged with a parole violation and being a sex offender on school grounds.

A probation officer found pictures showing Holland in the Middle Creek High School gym on Dec. 13, the night of a basketball game, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office.

Holland was charged and convicted of four offenses in 2008, according to North Carolina’s sex offender registry.

He was convicted of two counts each of attempted statutory rape of a 15-year-old and attempted indecent liberty with a minor, the registry says. He was 25 at the time.

Holland was in prison from 2008 to 2016 and released on parole scheduled to end in April 2021, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety.

He is being held in Wake County Detention Center without bail.