A suspected child sex offender featured on “America’s Most Wanted” was arrested in Florida over the weekend, authorities said.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced Monday that Davey Albarran, who had an arrest warrant in Osceola County on charges of sexual assault of a child under 12 and lewd acts with a child under 12, A 51-year-old man was taken into custody in Lakeland on Sunday night.
Judd said a lawsuit filed in Orange County also shows that he did not pay child support.
“Well, he made a mistake,” Judd said in a video posted online. “AMW (America’s Most Wanted) ran him all over the country and he came to Lakeland. When he came to Lakeland, we received classified information. They said, ‘Hey. We know where this guy is.’ So Sunday night, just before midnight, we snuck around the backyard on Country Haven Drive. Well, it may have been a country haven drive, but it wasn’t a haven for him. ”
When Albarran was arrested, he told police his name was Jose, Judd said.
Judd said Albarran appeared on the crime show in December 2022.
His daughter Anna previously said she wanted her father locked up, FOX 35 Orlando reported.
She posted on social media asking anyone who found him to call authorities.
“Share and paint the city with his face,” she wrote. “My father Davey Albarran has polio and is on the run and the police are looking for him.”
She accused him of inappropriate behavior towards her when she was a child.
“When I posted this, a lot of people messaged me and said, ‘Your dad did that to me too,'” she told the news station in 2022.
