Pennsylvania

Wanted Sex Offender Hid in Homemade Fort

A convicted sex offender wanted on charges he molested a 3-year-old girl in West Virginia has been found hiding in a homemade fort in the woods of western Pennsylvania.

KDKA-TV reports U.S. marshals helped local police and the Brook County, West Virginia sheriff's office track down 64-year-old David David in Hanover Township on Tuesday.

Brooke County Sheriff Chuck Jackson says the tiny wooden enclosure was ``elaborate.'' Among other things, it included a heater, electricity, a police scanner and knives.

West Virginia authorities have been looking for Jackson for two weeks since he was accused of molesting a co-worker's little girl.

David is already a convicted sex offender and was also wanted for not registering under Megan's Law for a 1999 molestation case.

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