Most wanted sex offender caught

NUEVO PROGRESO, MEXICO – The U.S. Marshals captured one of the top 10 most wanted Texas sex offenders in Nuevo Progreso, Mexico. According to our news partner KETK, Kit Edward Lulow, 42, was convicted of rape, sexual abuse and sodomy of a 13-year-old girl in Oregon in 2008. Lulow was sentenced to 75 months in prison for those charges but was arrested multiple times between 2014 and 2019 for violating his parole.

In February, he was arrested in Marion County, Texas, for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of child pornography. He later bonded out of Marion County Jail and fled to Mexico, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)

Lulow was also wanted in Cass County since February for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. Then in April, the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas issued two warrants for Lulow’s arrest on a charge of possession of child pornography.

He was then listed on Texas DPS’s 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list and Texas Crime Stoppers offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to Lulow’s capture.

DPS said Lulow was eventually spotted while hiding out in Nuevo Progress, Mexico, which is directly across the border from Progreso, Texas. The U.S. Marshals Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force then coordinated his capture in Mexico and Lulow was turned over to the Texas Rangers at the Progreso Port of Entry at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Lulow was booked into the Hidalgo County Jail on May 7.