A sex offender has been hiding in the Hudson Valley for over a month.

On Wednesday, members of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office arrested 62-year-old Joseph E. Mannello for failure to register as a sexual offender, a felony.

On February 22, deputies attempted to verify Mannello’s address, a common procedure for registered sex offenders, but it was discovered Mannello was no longer living at his registered address and had not been for several weeks, police say.

On Wednesday, deputies located and arrested Mannello on Wall Street in Kingston.

Mannello was arraigned in the Town of Olive Justice Court and remanded to the Ulster County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 secured bond.

Last year, Mannello was arrested in for allegedly assaulting someone at an Ulster County motel.

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