A district court judge has set a $50,000 cash or surety bond for a sex offender who registered a state park as his address, then left the campground.

South Central District Judge Tom Schneider set the bond for Timothy Robert Carpenterlove on Friday afternoon at the Morton County Courthouse.

Carpenterlove, 39, has been charged with Class Cfelony failure to register as a sex offender.

He registered an address of Spot 66 in the campground at Fort Lincoln State Park on Aug. 2, then vacated the campground on Aug. 10 without notifying authorities of his change of address.

People can stay in state parks for only 14 days.

Carpenterlove was located and arrested in Mandan on Thursday morning.

Carpenterlove, a moderate-risk sex offender, was convicted in 1988 in Arizona of attempted molestation of a child for nonconsensual sexual contact with an 11-year-old boy. He was sentenced to three years of supervised probation.

He also was convicted in 2006 in Mercer County of sexual assault for having oral sex with a 14-year-old boy. He was sentenced to 30 days, with 10 days suspended and two years of supervised probation.

Carpenterlove told Schneider he and his family had been camping at Nelson Lake since leaving Fort Lincoln State Park.