WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ) – A registered sex offender from Waupaca County on the lam for more than a year has been found.
According to a Facebook post from the Waupaca County Sheriff’s Department, 53-year-old Phillip Rath was taken into custody and is being held in Minnesota. No other information is available.
Police say Rath cut his monitoring bracelet in April 2014 while staying at his mom’s house in the Town of Dayton. Rath previously cut his bracelet two months before, but sheriff’s officials say he was found within 14 hours at a home a few miles away from his residence.
In 1993, Rath was convicted of sexually assaulting a child and was required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Last September, charges were filed against Rath in connection with his latest disappearance.
