Marshfield police are on the lookout Thursday morning for a wanted sex offender who allegedly approached a teenage girl this week.
An unregistered sex offender considered a person of interest after someone followed a teenage girl and offered her ride in Marshfield on Tuesday has been arrested, Massachusetts State Police said Thursday.
Edmund Chance, 53, was arrested by a team from the state police's Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender, according to state police.
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Chance was tracked to a location in Hingham and arrested, and was due in Hingham District Court later Thursday, police said. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak to his arrest.
Marshfield police said that Chance turned himself in and was being held on $250,000 bail.
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Police gave the man's name as Edmund Chance, which is an alias listed on the sex offender registry, where his name is given as Edmund Lachance.
It wasn't immediately clear if he would be charged in the incident on Tuesday evening, in which a 17-year-old girl going for a jog turned down a ride from a man, who followed her when she said no, according to Marshfield police.
They said she ran away and called 911, describing the vehicle the man was driving.
Officers located the vehicle parked at a home in Scituate, according to police. Investigators said Chance was evasive about what had happened, but they didn't have enough to go on at the time to make an arrest.
Chance is a Level 3 sex offender and must register every 90 days for life and register his new address whenever he moves. However, police said he had failed to register his new address at a home in Scituate. When officers went back to the home, the 53-year-old was gone.
"Not an immediate threat to public safety but he does have a history of predatory behavior…we want to locate him," Marshfield Police Officer Camden Bruno said amid the search.
The man was convicted of rape in 1991 and rape and indecent assault and battery on a person aged 14 or over in 2001, according to the Sex Offender Registry Board.
