Child Sex Offender Caught in Virginia

Police have tracked down a convicted sex offender who fled the state during his trial in November.

Plainfield police went down to Eastville, Virginia, to take custody of Randy A. Wright, 41, who had been booked into the Eastern Shore Regional Jail, authorities said.

Wright was extradited back to Connecticut on a charge of first-degree failure to appear after leaving town while on trial in November. A jury found him guilty of first- and second-degree sexual assault of a minor and risk of injury to a minor.

With help from the U.S. Marshals Office, police tracked him across the country through Utah, California, Colorado and finally Virginia.

Wright is being held on $1 million bond and is due in Danielson Superior Court on Jan. 20.

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