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SCRANTON — A suspected child rapist has been arrested in Nanticoke and will be extradited to Alabama to face the charges, U.S. Marshal Martin Pane announced Friday.

Jayson Montanez, 28, stands accused of rape and other related offenses.

According to Pane’s office, authorities in Lauderdale County, Alabama on April 3 obtained an arrest warrant charging Montanez with rape first degree and sex abuse of child.

The U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force learned Montanez may have fled to Luzerne County, and alerted marshals in Scranton.

On Friday, members of the Scranton-based USMS Fugitive Task Force arrested Montanez in the 200 block of West Church Street in Nanticoke.

Montanez was turned over to local authorities pending extradition to Alabama.

Cooperating with USMS were Pennsylvania State Police, the Scranton Police Department, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole and the Nanticoke Police Department.