OGDEN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Ogden Police say a sex offender who has been on the run for more than 6 years has been arrested.
According to a police spokesperson, 41-year-old Brent Dee Unsworth fled from prosecution after a being charged with kidnapping in 2003.
Unsworth pleaded guilty to child sex abuse in 1991 in an unrelated case, and after serving 4 years in the Utah State Prison system, he was befriended by an Ogden family with a 12-year-old son, according court documents.
Unsworth reportedly moved into the family's basement and began to befriend the boy in 2003, taking him out of school, out for breakfast, going on trips to Salt Lake City and buying him clothing, according to charging documents.
The charging documents also allege that Unsworth took the boy to his another Salt Lake City apartment where he took photos of the boy, but did not allege that he had any physical sexual contact with him.
Prosecutors also say Unsworth took the boy out of Highland Middle School without his parents' consent, which is why the kidnapping charge was brought against him.
Police say Unsworth disappeared until the past weekend, when he was arrested on an outstanding warrant by probations officers.
