Child sex offender who fled to Arizona gets more prison time

A judge on Monday sent sex offender Daniel Teed, the target of a nationwide manhunt that ended in Arizona earlier this year, to federal prison for 18 months.

U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab imposed that term on Teed, 57, of Marshall, and ordered him to serve the term in addition to a 10-year sentence he was supposed to be serving for his role in the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl forced to participate in group sex parties.

Teed was supposed to self-report to prison in January, but didn’t show up.

Federal marshals tracked him down the following month in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was living under an alias.

In his original case, Teed was convicted of participating in the abuse of a teenage girl from Beaver County at group sex parties arranged by a former Beaver County basketball coach, Ralph Ruprecht, who is serving 16 years in prison for rape.

Ruprecht had arranged for groups of men to have sex with underage girls and adult women at hotels and at an apartment in the Strip District.

One of his victims was the Beaver County girl, who was forced to have sex with as many as nine men at a time in 2015 and 2016.

Teed, who had once been a candidate for the state Legislature, was one of the customers and admitted to what he had done.

Judge Schwab gave him 10 years and told him to self-report by Jan. 5, but he didn’t arrive on that date and fled.