Police: Missing Sex Offender Found in Bridgewater

By MICHELLE SAHN (Patch Staff)

A convicted sex-offender, who went missing from a Middlesex County motel, has been taken into custody, according to published reports.

Paul Timmendequas, 51, was arrested around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bridgewater, after police got a tip from someone who spotted him fishing at the Washington Valley Reservoir, according to NJ.com.

Local police arrested him, and then turned him over to the New Jersey State Parole Board, according to News 12 New Jersey.

He is in the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick, reports said.

It was the crimes of Timmendequas’ brother, Jesse Timmendequas, that led to the creation of Megan’s Law. Jesse Timmendequas was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994 in Hamilton Township.

Five years later, Paul Timmendequas was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls in East Brunswick, and he was sentenced to a seven-year prison term.

His last known address had been at the Beauty Rest Motel in Edison, but he was reported missing on May 26, when he failed to check in with his parole officer, News 12 New Jersey said.

Photo: Paul Timmendequas, Courtesy of News12