Reward Offered For Most Wanted

Reward Offered for Most Wanted Sex Offender from Beaumont

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added Shawn Monroe Cowan, 43, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, and now offering a cash reward up to $5,000 for information leading to his capture. Cowan is wanted for parole violation and failure to register as a sex offender. All tips are guaranteed to be anonymous.

Cowan has been wanted since June 2017 and has ties to Granbury (Hood County) and Huntsville (Walker County). In March 2011, Cowan was convicted of indecency with a child/sexual contact after an incident in Walker County involving a 9-year-old girl. Cowan’s last known address was in Beaumont, where he registered as a sex offender in May 2017. He has since fled and his whereabouts are unknown.

Cowan is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs approximately 245 pounds. He has tattoos on his chest, left calf, both upper arms, both shoulders, and both thighs. For more information or updates in the event of his arrest, see his wanted bulletin.

Texas Crime Stoppers, which is funded by the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division, offers cash rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of the Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives or sex offenders. Last year, Texas Crime Stoppers paid $61,000 in total rewards for anonymous tips that resulted in arrests.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters MUST provide information to authorities using one of the five following methods:

Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).
Text the letters “DPS” – followed by your tip – to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cell phone.
Submit a web tip through the DPS website by selecting the fugitive you have information about, and then clicking on the link under their picture.
Submit a Facebook tip by clicking the “SUBMIT A TIP” link (under the “About” section).
Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App. The app is currently available for iPhone users on the Apple App Store and Android users on Google Play.

All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters receive a tip number instead of using a name.

DPS investigators work with local law enforcement agencies to select fugitives for the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive and Sex Offender lists. You can find the current listings, with photos, on the DPS website. Do not attempt to apprehend these fugitives; they are considered armed and dangerous.