By Daily Press staff
A registered sex offender has been arrested after he was found lurking behind a Santa Monica home watching a child, according to Santa Monica police.
The Department of Justice’s sexual predator apprehension team arrested the man April 20 after a Santa Monica woman witnessed the suspect looking through a fence behind her home on 22nd Street and California Avenue.
She reported the suspicous activity to Santa Monica police. Officers interviewed her child, and the woman was able to provide police with the suspect’s license plate number.
The plate’s number was tracked to a man registered as a convicted sex offender. The sexual predator apprehension team put the man under survelliance, during which time he was seen talking to two juvenile boys in Santa Monica.
Police declined to identify the man.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 9, 2002. Read the original PDF.