BLUE ISLAND, Ill. - A 60-year-old man wanted in Wisconsin for child sexual assault was arrested in Blue Island earlier this month, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know:

Michael Blackwell was taken into custody on Oct. 10 by the Cook County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, officials said Friday.

Investigators in Wisconsin had notified the task force a week earlier that Blackwell, who was wanted in Milwaukee on a first-degree child sexual assault warrant, had fled the state and might be in the Chicago area.

Officers learned Blackwell may have been staying at a home in the 6200 block of South Fairfield Avenue in Chicago and often used Metra trains to travel to Blue Island and Evergreen Park. A

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