A registered sex offender from Buda wanted on two felony warrants was taken into custody without incident in Maxwell on Friday, according to the Hays County Sheriff's Office. David Anthony Llanos was booked into the Hays County Jail after deputies with the agency's Organized Crime Unit located him in the small Caldwell County community.
Llanos was wanted on a Motion to Adjudicate Guilt for indecency with a child by exposure, a third-degree felony, and a Motion to Revoke for failure to comply with sex offender registration duties, a state jail felony, according to a Hays County Sheriff's Office post. Those two legal mechanisms indicate Llanos was already on court-ordered supervision for both the underlying child indecency case and the registration requirement when the warrants were issued, rather than facing entirely new charges. Deputies said Llanos was remanded on the outstanding warrants after his arrest.
According to Texas sex offender registry details reported by N' Cuffs, the underlying sex offense that landed Llanos on the registry involved a 14-year-old victim. Under Texas Penal Code § 21.11, indecency with a child by exposure covers exposing private parts to a minor under 17 with sexual intent and carries a prison term of two to ten years along with a fine of up to $10,000, per legal resources compiled by Dunham & Jones. Separately, failure to comply with registration duties is a state jail felony carrying 180 days to two years behind bars for ten-year registrants, escalating to a third-degree felony for those required to register annually for life, according to Article 62.102 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure as outlined by Justia Law.
A Familiar Face to Local Law Enforcement
This was not Llanos' first run-in with Hays County authorities. He was previously arrested on October 9, 2025, as part of a Crime Stoppers round-up, per the sheriff's office's own account posted to Facebook. That program has proven active in the region, with Hays County Crime Stoppers crediting itself with 88 total arrests throughout 2025.
Llanos was ultimately found roughly 15 miles from his listed home in Buda, a fast-growing Hays County suburb south of Austin that has swelled to more than 16,300 residents in 2026, up from 15,108 counted in the 2020 census, according to the World Population Review. He was apprehended instead in Maxwell, an unincorporated community that sits primarily across the line in Caldwell County and is home to an estimated 2,800 to 3,300 residents, per Point2Homes. His capture there illustrates how Hays County's specialized crime unit tracks non-compliant registrants beyond the county's own borders.
Part of a Broader Compliance Push
The sheriff's office, in its post announcing the arrest, said sex offender registration requirements are not optional and that the agency actively investigates cases involving noncompliance, adding that it remains committed to holding registered sex offenders accountable and will continue to pursue outstanding warrants. The Llanos arrest follows a larger enforcement effort just weeks earlier: in July, the Hays County Sheriff's Office joined federal and state partners for “Operation Adam's Watch,” conducting 138 sex offender compliance checks across the county that opened nine active non-compliance investigations, according to information posted by Hays County.
The sheriff's office, led by Sheriff Anthony Hipolito, covers 680 square miles of central Texas and serves a population of more than 240,000 residents, per the county's own figures. The Llanos case adds to a string of recent Hays County prosecutions involving child sex offenses and registry violations that Hoodline has tracked, including a San Marcos 30-year plea deal in March and a separate manhunt for a Kyle man wanted on similar charges in February.
