Robert Tilton, University of Maine at Farmington, Maine
Police Search for Sex Offender February 17, 2009 Police at the University of Maine at Farmington are on the lookout for a 19-year-old sex offender from South Carolina who may have shown up on campus, armed with knives... Police believe that Robert Tilton of Clarendon, South Carolina, rode on a bus more than 1,200 miles to meet a female student he'd contacted through an on-line gaming site. Police say Tilton got into a locked residential hall after giving a security officer a false name. Investigators say they later found two large knives hidden in the area where Tilton entered the building. Tilton is listed on the South Carolina sex offender registry for a 2006 conviction involving a 6-year-old. http://www.wabi.tv/index.php?cat_id=4006&url_news4006=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wabi.tv%2Fmodules%2FNews%2FdisplayNews.php%3Fid%3D4972&formFocus=news4006