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SEATTLE – A dangerous sex offender who has been wanted since disappearing from Monroe, Wash. after he cut off his GPS bracelet has surrendered in Arkansas.

The U.S. Marshals Service says David Torrence, a Level 3 sex offender, turned himself in after family members in Camden, Arkansas convinced him to stop running.

Torrence will be extradited back to Washington state.

Torrence disappeared April 23 after cutting off the Global Positioning Satellite ankle bracelet which was used to monitor him. After getting out of prison on April 20, he spend two nights with family in Lynnwood, but the state listed him as homeless and said he had to live under a bridge in Monroe.

In 1995, Torrence was convicted of grabbing a 16-year-old Snohomish County girl off the street and raping her. Before his release, Torrence had been serving a sentence for previously failing to register.