A Level 3 sex offender missing since he left a Minneapolis halfway house almost two weeks ago was arrested Sunday morning after breaking into a school, police said.
Clarence Robinson was booked into Hennepin County jail on suspicion of burglary, possession of burglary tools, failing to register as a sex offender and on a warrant from the Minnesota Department of Corrections for that accused him of walking away from the halfway house, according to jail records.
Police arrested him shortly before 3 a.m. after receiving a call about a possible break-in at Anwatin Middle School in the 200 block of Upton Avenue S. in Minneapolis.
A police report said Robinson was seen leaving the school with a bag of food and a bike, which police believe was taken from the school yard.
The report said he was found carrying a pry bar and a long screwdriver, which police speculated he used to break a window to get into the school.
John Schadle, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections, said Robinson cut a GPS monitoring device he was wearing and left the halfway house Nov. 1.
In a news release issued Nov. 8, the Corrections Department said Robinson had been in prison until last month for sexually assaulting a Hennepin County woman whose home he had broken into in 1997.
Schadle said Robinson was released because he had served two-thirds of his sentence, as required by law.
