Local and federal law enforcement say a convicted sex offender has been arrested and extradited to Colorado after eight years on the run, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said on Monday.

David Anthony Jaramillo, 38, was apprehended in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on Aug. 23, as part of a joint investigation with Mexican police, the FBI, and local law enforcement from across the Denver metro area. He was taken to Texas the next day and extradited back to Colorado on Sept. 8. He's awaiting trial at the Arapahoe County Detention Center on several cases out of Arapahoe, Jefferson, and Weld Counties.

"Protecting children is a top priority of the FBI, and we aggressively investigate child predators and pursue criminal cases against them," Mark Michalek, FBI special agent in charge of the Denv

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