A Utah sex offender out on parole may be headed back to the slammer after police said he stole a school bus, drove across towns and tried convincing a young girl to get onboard, KSTU-TV reported.
Colleagues of Patrick Fredricksen, a 30-year-old registered sex offender from Ogden, said he was working at his landscaping job at a baseball field in Huntington when he suddenly walked off, according to the Emery County Sheriff's Office.
He walked to a nearby funeral home where he stole an employee's SUV with the keys inside and drove to a remote area between Elmo and Price, sheriffs told the station.
Fredricksen, convicted in 2004 for sexual activity with a minor, allegedly abandoned the vehicle and hopped into a school bus parked in front of a residence. It also had the keys inside.
Following a route left inside the bus, the parolee drove to Cleveland town, where police say he tried picking up a little girl outside her home.
"He did stop at one residence and tried to pick up a young child, the father intercepted that and he went on down the road at which time he met a person and asked for another address," Lieutenant Gayle Jensen told KSTU-TV.
"She was very suspicious about that so she called that in and at that point we responded to that area and was able to bring this to a conclusion."
Fredricksen, who was already wanted for a parole violation, was cuffed and charged with theft of a vehicle and attempted child kidnapping, the station reported.
But Fredricksen's law-breaking ways didn't stop there. Sheriffs say after his booking at Emery County Jail, he broke a pipe to the jail's sprinkler system and flooded the booking area and his jail cell.
Fredricksen was slapped with an extra charge of damaging a jail cell as a result.
