( CNN ) -- Fugitive Colorado sex offender Eric Hartwell , who apparently cut off his ankle monitor and left a group home , has been apprehended in Norfolk , Virginia , the U.S . Marshals Service said . A fugitive warrant was requested minutes after Hartwell , 51 , walked away from Independence House in Denver a week ago . Hartwell was convicted of raping a child in 1991 and of attempted indecent liberties in 1996 , according to the Colorado sex offender registry . He was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised parole by a federal judge in Texas in March 2010 after he was found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender , according to a U.S. Justice Department news release . Hartwell was placed in a halfway house in Washington state in March 2009 for failure to register as a sex offender , but after just a week there he cut off his leg monitor and fled to Texas , according to the Justice Department .
Eric Johnson is a convicted sex offender who was at a group home . He appears to have cut off his penis , and fled . He was caught in court .