Missing sex offender found A convicted sex offender who went missing two weeks ago has been apprehended. Morgan DeGeorge, 28, who last resided on Kierst Street in the Parlin section of Sayreville, was arrested at 4:30 a.m. Friday in a basement apartment in Elizabeth by officers from the New Jersey State Parole Board Fugitive Task Force and the U.S. Marshal's Office. DeGeorge, who is classified as a Tier 3 sex offender under Megan's Law, is charged with failing to comply with community supervision for life and tampering with his electric monitoring device, a third-degree offense. The device was attached to his ankle. He is now being held on $150,000 bail with no 10 percent option. DeGeorge was convicted in 2000 of endangering the welfare of a child after he exposed himself to several children under the age of 13 in Woodbridge in 1999. He was found to be a repetitive and compulsive offender and was sentenced to five years at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel. He was released from that prison in 2003. On May 21, he reportedly tampered with his global positioning monitoring device and was detected as missing minutes later. Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Lynn Pilone said DeGeorge could face three to five years in prison if convicted of his latest charges. Those charges will now be brought before a grand jury in New Brunswick, which will determine whether to return an indictment, she said. DeGeorge had been found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated assault and failure to register as a sex offender, according to Capt. Sean Asay of the New Jersey State Parole Board. Asay said that the program to track sex offenders by utilizing monitoring devices was implemented in October 2005. He added that the device allows authorities to gather information, which is stored in a database for a minimum of three years. "We use it in a lot of ways," Asay said. "We gather information on their whereabouts and their activities, as far as the trail the sex offenders follow... where they travel routinely." "It can be used to implicate or exonerate offenders," he added.