SWEETWATER COUNTY – A fugitive sex offender on the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office most wanted list has been captured in Alaska, Sheriff Mike Lowell said today.
Robert William Bousquet, 32, who was convicted of rape in Idaho in 2004, was wanted on felony theft charges in the theft of a dozen rifles, handguns, and shotguns from a Rock Springs residence.
County detectives and deputies have recovered all but one of the firearms, a .380-caliber pistol.
Bousquet was also wanted by Federal authorities for felon in possession of a firearm.
Working with the United States Marshals Service, Sheriff’s Office SNAAG (Sheriff’s Narcotics and Arrest Group) detectives tracked Bousquet to Idaho, then Washington, and ultimately to Anchorage, Alaska, where he was arrested without incident by U.S. Marshals on May 8.
