March 4, 2011
By JAMES WALSH
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Loren Clayton Oulman was like many American expatriates looking for a fresh start in Asia. He ran website ads in Korea and China, offering his services as a teacher or consultant. He lived in Cambodia and traveled to India, Bangkok and Myanmar, searching for opportunities.
But he is also a convicted sex offender who’d fled Minnesota. Thanks to his Internet ads and a new international initiative, the U.S. Marshals Service captured Oulman in January and, last week, returned him to a cell in Minnesota. He had spent more than a year abroad and been featured on “America’s Most Wanted.”
Oulman, 72, is one of a several known sex offenders who have fled Minnesota for other countries, according to the Marshals Service — just some of the thousands across the country who evade monitoring. Investigators hope a new initiative, dubbed “Project Sentinel/Operation Guardian,” helps make foreign soil less of a haven for U.S. sex criminals.
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