Level 3 sex offender arrested in Las Vegas
By Jillian Jorgensen, Globe Staff
A man who failed to register as a Level 3 sex offender in Massachusetts was apprehended in Las Vegas Thursday, State Police said.
Daniel J. Moody, 46, was located by the State Police and arrested in a parking lot by U.S. Marshals and Las Vegas officers.
Moody was wanted by the Framingham Police for four counts of failing to register as a sex offender there.
After authorities determined he might have left the state, Middlesex District Attorney Gerald Leone approved a nationwide warrant for Moody, who had been convicted of rape in 1991 and escape in 1994, both in Massachusetts, as well as several other crimes elsewhere, police said.
Colonel Mark F. Delaney, superintendent of the State Police, said in a statement that his agency would track down sex offenders who don't register.
"Let there be no doubt that if you're a dangerous sex offender who fails to comply with registration requirements, the Massachusetts State Police will do everything in our power to find you, even if that means tracking you from one end of the country to the other, as we did in this case," he said.
