Sex offender sought in Las Cruces arrested in Tucson
Federal authorities say a man sought in New Mexico for failing to register as a sex offender has been arrested in Arizona.
U.S. Marshals Service officials say William Kammerer, 43, was taken into custody Monday in Tucson. Online jail records show Kammerer remains jailed in Pima County. His mugshot is not immediately available.
The service’s taskforce members from Las Cruces, New Mexico had been unable to locate Kammerer, who was previously convicted of victimizing a 14-year-old girl.
They received information that he may have been hiding in the Tucson area and was located at his girlfriend’s house, hiding in a closet.
Authorities say Kammerer resisted arrest and they had to use a stun gun to subdue him. They say he’ll face a new federal charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
He also was wanted for failure to appear in U.S. District Court.
ABC-7 archives show Kammerer was arrested in 2010 along with 37-year-old Randy Stevens. Both were charged with raping the young girls they hired to babysit Stevens’s 3-year-old daughter inside his mobile home.
