Florida Sex Offender Fleeing Rape Charge Arrested In Warwick

WARWICK, RI — A top-ten fugitive and registered sex offender from Lee County, Florida who was wanted on charges of raping a minor was arrested Thursday morning at the Extended Stay America hotel in Pawtucket by members of the Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force.

Kyndall Tyree Hutchins, 33, was tracked down after a week on the run, and was arrested without incident at around 8:30 a.m., according to Rhode Island State Police Capt. John Allen. Hutchins was arraigned as a fugitive at Sixth District Court in Providence, is now being held at ACI Cranston, and has waived extradition to the Sunshine State.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Don Freeman said Friday that Hutchins was with a woman and her young child when he was arrested, and that the woman has ties to both Florida and Rhode Island. The woman and the child are unharmed. The hotel was not evacuated for the arrest, and the woman answered the door for law enforcement after a short time. Hutchins was found hiding beneath a bed, Freeman said. A vehicle registered to the woman was found at the hotel.

U.S. Marshals, Rhode Island State Police, and officers from the Warwick, Cranston, Portsmouth police departments participated in Thursday's arrest.

Hutchins, of Fort Myers, will answer to new sex crime charges when he appears before a judge following his extradition to Florida, a spokesperson for the Lee County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook Live post.

Hutchins is accused of raping a minor in the parking lot of a Fort Myers restaurant. Following his arrest in August of 2020, he was released from jail on $30,000 bail. On Feb. 17, he missed a court hearing, removed his GPS monitor, and fled the state, WINK-TV reports. Hutchins has been booked 20 times in Lee County for battery, domestic violence, hit and run, fleeing and eluding, drug possession, grand theft, and weapons charges, according to NBC-2.

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