Fugitive Sex Offender Busted
Suspect Cut Off Ankle Bracelet
The Associated Press
May 9, 2008, 1:50 PM PDT
The U.S. Marshals Service says a sex offender who
cut off a tracking bracelet in Lynnwood and fled has surrendered in
Camden, Arkansas.
The service says family members talked David J. Torrence into
surrendering Friday at the sheriff's office in Ouchita County.
He'll be returned to Washington under a state Department of
Corrections warrant and could face a federal charge of failing to
register as a sex offender under the new Adam Walsh Act.
The 43-year-old who had raped a young girl in Everett in 1995
was released from prison April 20 after serving a one-year sentence
for failing to register as a sex offender.
The Snohomish County sheriff's office says his tracking bracelet
was cut off and found April 23 at an apartment complex in Lynnwood.
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