Fugitive sex offender busted trying to rent apartment

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Fugitive sex offender busted trying to rent apartment

05:39 PM PDT on Thursday, September 4, 2008

By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff

SALEM, Ore. -- A paroled sex offender police said cut off his monitoring bracelet and fled a Salem home was caught trying to rent an apartment.

The parole board said Ronald Collins was a sexually violent dangerous offender with a history of molesting boys. He was ordered to have no contact with minors, not frequent places where minors congregate and not drink alcohol after serving time on a 1995 conviction.

Marion County

Collins was released in June and living in the Northeast area of Salem near Lancaster and Center Street NE. Police said Collins cut the electronic monitoring bracelet from his ankle and took off.

Detectives said Thursday Collins was arrested after trying to rent an apartment in Salem.