St. Albans police and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Tuesday evening an alleged fugitive from North Carolina.
William Lee Bayliss, 32, was charged in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and second-degree sexual offense for an offense he allegedly committed in 2007, St. Albans Capt. James Agee wrote in a news release. Agee said Bayliss had been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest in November 2013.
Agee wrote that local U.S. Marshals and North Carolina authorities tracked Bayliss to a relative's home on the 1500 block of Kanawha Terrace, where he was arrested without incident shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday. He was arraigned in Kanawha Magistrate Court and placed in South Central Regional Jail pending extradition proceedings.