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AUSTIN - Two men on the Texas DPS 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list were arrested last week in Texas and Louisiana.

Both men had been on the run for months after failing to comply with their sex offender registration requirements.

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Derrick Van Flowers, 44, was arrested in Houston on Oct. 8 after a traffic stop.

The stop stemmed from an investigation into Flowers' location, a DPS release said Tuesday.

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The Houston resident has a long history of failing to comply with his sex offender registration requirements, DPS says.

Flowers had been wanted in Harris County since April 2025. His original conviction was in 2008 for an incident with a 15-year-old girl, D

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