Sex offender found living in UI library
November 14, 2008
Authorities at the University are trying to find out how a convicted sex offender came to be living inside a campus library.
University Police Lt. Roy Acree says 21-year-old Eric J. Kaminski, who gave a Champaign address, was discovered early Thursday morning at the Undergraduate Library in Urbana.
Library security believes Kaminski had been living in the library behind movable bookshelves.
Acree says Kaminski had a folding knife with a 3-inch blade and a sex offender registration form in his possession when he was found.
He says Kaminski was convicted of a sex crime in Michigan, and court records show he was arrested by Champaign police and pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of failure to register as a sex offender.