By Liz Farmer
The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON — A sex offender with tattoos scrawled all over his face failed to show up at Texas halfway house has been captured, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Matthew Ezekiel Stager was released Thursday from the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg, Va., and was supposed to check into a transitional facility in Texas that day but never did, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
He was captured in Washington D.C. on Wednesday after two Metropolitan police officers spotted him, the Statesman reported.
He was supposed to be housed in the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, but went missing after federal authorities lost track of him at the airport.
Stager is “an admitted witch from North Carolina,” according to court documents.
In 1999, Stager was convicted of indecent liberties with a minor after sexually assaulting a girl beginning when she was 12 years old. He ultimately got her pregnant when she was 16, records show.
He was later convicted in Texas on a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender after crossing state lines, The Progress-Index reports.
In 2004, he registered as a sex offender with the Killeen Police Department, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Stager has known connections to multiple states, The Progress-Index reports.
He turned 45 on Wednesday.
The Associated Press and staff writer Claire Cardona contributed to this report.
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