SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) – A convicted child predator was arrested after police said they found him lurking in a Springfield park.August Billek, 67, was charged with loitering near a park as a child sex offender and being an uninsured motorist.Police were called to Riverside Park Tuesday around 11 a.m. for a suspicious vehicle.The caller told officers an older man was following her and moving his vehicle to follow her every time she moved.Officers said Billek had a pocketknife in his pocket when they came to the park and arrested him. He told them he had not seen a woman and did not know he was not allowed to be at the park.There is a playground at Riverside Park, but the caller said there were not children there at the time Billek was there.
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