A convicted sex offender accused of cutting his ankle monitor and fleeing Chatham County in November was captured Tuesday in San Francisco.
Police there stopped 30-year-old Christopher Aaron Walter riding a bicycle near an elementary school where he acted nervous and provided an officer with a false name, said Michelle Gavin, Chatham County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. Walter eventually admitted he was wanted in Georgia and investigators arrested him.
Walter who was convicted in 2002 for enticing a child for indecent purposes and had been labeled a sexual predator by the state. Gavin said Walter had last registered as homeless with the sheriff’s office’s Sexual Offender Registry Team — or S.O.R.T. — and had been living under the Talmadge Bridge. He cut his required electronic monitoring device on Nov. 13 and fled the area.
Walter will be extradited back to Chatham County and faces charges including probation violation and failing to register as a sex offender.
He was the only registered sex offender listed as absconded by S.O.R.T.