The sex offender registry is helpful to check for offenders in your area. Except if the offender says he lives in Lehi but actually lives in American Fork.

A 33-year-old man who had been convicted of forcible sexual abuse but failed to update his whereabouts with the registry was found in American Fork earlier this week, AFPD reports.

But 6-foot-2 Jacob Joseph Miller would have remained unfound if he didn’t get busted for domestic violence. He and his girlfriend had been living in hotels for the past four months and failed to appear in courts when the police realized he was not living in Lehi.

It was only after his arrest on Tuesday that AFPD discovered he was wanted for not living at the registered address. After Miller had been released from jail on other charges on April 1, 2014, he gave an address in Lehi as his residence. But Lehi officers had conducted sex offender registry check and learned he did not live there. Still, Lehi police didn’t annotate the public registry to warn his whereabouts were unknown. Instead, the Lehi address is still wrongly displayed.

The hotel manager said Miller had been living in the American Fork hotel for “approximately” seven days, according to a police report reviewed by the Citizen. Miller admitted that he lived in that hotel.

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