CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A convicted sex offender was being held in Georgia Monday in connection with the abduction last week of an 11-year-old boy from Florida, CNN reported.
Frederick Fretz, 42, was arrested by police in Cartersville, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta Sunday afternoon, said police spokeswoman Edwina Wood.
Fretz is accused of kidnapping Adam Kirkirt after picking him up from elementary school Tuesday in Dunnellon, Fla.
The youth was found uninjured Friday by a sheriff's deputy in Bartow County, Ga.
Sunday, Cartersville police were called to a shopping center to investigate a report of a man acting suspiciously, Wood said. Fretz reportedly tried to run, but was apprehended.
Fretz was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy in 1991 but was not registered as a sex offender in Florida, where he had been living with the boy and his father, Ivert Kirkirt.
A spokesman for the Marion County Sheriff's Office in Ocala, Fla, said Fretz now faces a federal kidnapping charge, plus two state counts -- a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender and a misdemeanor charge of violating probation.
