Sex offender from South Dakota arrested at Pittsburgh homeless camp

PITTSBURGH — A sex offender from South Dakota has been arrested at a homeless camp in Pittsburgh, officials said.

Gregory Davis was arrested at the camp off Arlington Avenue, Channel 11's Rick Earle reported. He was taken into custody by the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office Fugitive Task Force.

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"He had served 12 years of a 20-year sentence of felony charges related to child pornography in South Dakota. He was released, absconded, failed to register as part of his condition of probation on and at that point the arrest warrant was issued in South Dakota," Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus from the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office said.

Sheriffs got a tip that Davis, who was originally from Pittsburgh, had been living at a camp under the Liberty Bridge.

Deputies used the weather to their advantage. First they checked to make sure there were no footprints in the snow leaving the camp, then they moved in.

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