'Violent Sex Offender' Wanted By Mass. Police Arrested In Pennsylvania
BOSTON (CBS) –A man police called a "violent sex offender" wanted by several police departments in Massachusetts was arrested on Thursday living in Pennsylvania under a false identity.
Richard Sease, 47, was arrested just before 7 a.m. in Meadville, Penn., by members of the United States Marshals and Pennsylvania State Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit.
Sease was charged in Pennsylvania with being a fugitive from justice and held on $500,000 bond.
Massachusetts State Police and the Grafton, Hadley and Worcester Police Departments were searching for Sease, who was believed to have fled the state in May 2013 after being arrested in Worcester.
In April 2014 Sease was added to the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted List.
When he was added to the list, Sease was wanted for nine outstanding warrants.
Charges included stalking, carrying a dangerous weapon, threatening to commit murder, two counts each of failure to register as a Level 3 sex offender and criminal harassment, and five counts of violating a harassment prevention order.
While trying to locate Sease, a state police task force found that he was also a suspect in an Ohio rape during which the victim was allegedly drugged. He was also wanted in Ohio for failure to register as a sex offender.
Massachusetts prosecutors are working to arrange Sease's extradition to the state.
