Sex offender arrested

Early Monday morning, members of the Maries County Sheriff's Department apprehended Kenneth C. Ketcherside, 35, Vienna, who was wanted out of Jefferson City for being a parole absconder for felony manufacture of a controlled substance and felony failure to register as a sex offender out of Cole County.

Ketcherside also had an outstanding warrant out of Maries County.

He is now facing a charge for third offense of failure to register as a sex offender.

Ketcherside was being held in the Maries County Jail with no bond.