A 61-year-old sex offender from Ohio, Bobby Ray Blackburn, was arrested in Sumter County for failing to register in Florida.
According to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, a deputy spotted Blackburn hitchhiking on Interstate 75 in Oxford on Thursday around 1:30 p.m.
Blackburn was convicted of criminal sexual assault involving a child on April 5, 1991, and had warrants out of Georgia and Ohio for failure to appear for DUI.
He had been convicted of criminal sexual assault involving a child on April 5, 1991.
Author's summary: Sex offender arrested in Sumter County.