Man Wanted for Sex Crimes out of Texas Located in Covington

A St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office detective, who is assigned to the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive

Apprehension Task Force, assisted Wednesday evening (June 5, 2019) in the apprehension of a man wanted for sex crimes out of Texas.

The arrested subject, Steven Maurice Goff, (36) was wanted by the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office on their charge of Sexual Performance by a Child.

Members of the Task Force located Goff at a family members’ Covington-area residence at approximately 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken into custody without incident and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail as a fugitive.