ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — A sex offender who Allegan County prosecutors say cut his electronic tether and skipped a hearing has been found.

Undersheriff Mike Larsen confirmed to News 8 Wednesday that Daniel Loew was in the Allegan County Jail. Larsen said the Michigan State Police Fugitive Team found and arrested Loew around 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Loew was expected in an Allegan County courtroom Monday for a bond hearing, but Prosecutor Myrene Koch told News 8 he never showed and had cut off his tether. A warrant was issued for his arrest.

Loew has been at the center of a legal back-and-forth over his bond while he appealed his 2019 conviction on multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct for the abuse of a teen girl. Koch had filed several motions to try to get his bond revoked while that appeals process worked its way through the courts.

“This defendant should not have been on bond,” she wrote to Target 8 Monday. “Our office argued multiple times at multiple hearings that this defendant was a flight risk and a danger to the community.”

Loew was trying to get a new trial after it was discovered that Allegan County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Zuzich Bakker, while presiding over his initial trial, sent three brief, private emails to Koch questioning the quality of the investigation by Michigan State Police. An Allegan County judge initially granted him a new trial, but higher courts disagreed.

Last week, the Michigan Supreme Court denied Loew’s motion to reconsider its prior decision not to afford him another trial. That reaffirmed Loew’s conviction, Koch said, setting the stage for his return to prison to serve out his 20- to 40-year sentence.