Fugitive Pawtucket Sex Offender Captured: Cops

PAWTUCKET, RI — A wanted Pawtucket sex offender was captured Thursday, police said.

Antonio Luis Median-Santiago, 35, was arrested by the Rhode Island State Police Violent Fugitive Task Force, the state police said in a media release.

Median-Santiago was wanted on a federal warrant charging him with the indecent assault of person younger than 13 and failing to register as a sex offender, the release said.

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Medina-Santiago pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to register as a sex offender after he was released from a halfway house in Pennsylvania.

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When police on the lookout for Medina-Santiago approached him as he was walking near his home in June 2022, he ran to his building and barricaded himself inside an apartment behind a locked steel door before surrendering a half hour later, officials said.

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On Thursday, Medina-Santiago was "taken into custody without incident and transported to the Providence Federal Courthouse," the release said.

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