TN- Missing sex offender caught in Knoxville

9-11-2008 Tennessee:

Authorities are trying to figure out how a sex offender, required to wear a GPS tracking device, managed to go missing. That man has now been found in Knoxville.

Charles Terrance Hartley has twice been convicted of attempted aggravated sexual battery. He is classified as a violent sex offender on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's registry.

His address is listed as homeless.

The 46-year-old was required by a court order to wear a GPS tracking device.

But that device was apparently never activated.

Knoxville Police arrested Hartley around 10:30 Wednesday night. He was transfered to the Anderson County jail around midnight.

Now, authorities are trying to sort out how Hartley's tracking device was not activated. ..News Source.. by WBIR.com