RICHMOND, Va. -- A man convicted of molesting children in Virginia who was on the U.S. Marshals list of 15 most wanted fugitives has been caught in California.
Marshals say 73-year-old Paul Clouston was arrested Tuesday in Merced, Calif.
The marshals' Central Valley joint fugitive task force made the arrest after learning Clouston had been working as a maintenance man for the last four years in a group home in Merced, said Deputy Marshal Kevin Connolly.
He was taken into custody without incident after marshals discovered him sitting in a chair outside the group home, reading a newspaper, Connolly said.
The arrest followed a viewer tip to the "AmericaÂ’s Most Wanted" television show.
Clouston was wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution by the Virginia State Police for failing to register as a sex offender and by the Virginia Division of Probation and Parole for allegedly violating his parole on a conviction for the armed sexual assault of a child.
Clouston was convicted in 1973 of second-degree murder in the death of a California police detective, and released from prison in 1982.
In 1991, the Pennsylvania native pleaded guilty to seven of 17 counts of sexually abusing children in Williamsburg.
Paroled in 2005, Clouston failed to register as a sex offender in Virginia and left the state.
Marshals say 73-year-old Paul Clouston was arrested Tuesday in Merced, Calif.
The marshals' Central Valley joint fugitive task force made the arrest after learning Clouston had been working as a maintenance man for the last four years in a group home in Merced, said Deputy Marshal Kevin Connolly.
He was taken into custody without incident after marshals discovered him sitting in a chair outside the group home, reading a newspaper, Connolly said.
The arrest followed a viewer tip to the "AmericaÂ’s Most Wanted" television show.
Clouston was wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution by the Virginia State Police for failing to register as a sex offender and by the Virginia Division of Probation and Parole for allegedly violating his parole on a conviction for the armed sexual assault of a child.
Clouston was convicted in 1973 of second-degree murder in the death of a California police detective, and released from prison in 1982.
In 1991, the Pennsylvania native pleaded guilty to seven of 17 counts of sexually abusing children in Williamsburg.
Paroled in 2005, Clouston failed to register as a sex offender in Virginia and left the state.
