A sex offender from California has been arrested by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office for failing to register.

61-year-old Richard Ray Richards was contacted by deputies after reports he had been in the Silver Springs area for more than 48 hours without registering with any law enforcement agency. 

He was taken into custody and booked into the Lyon County Jail on one felony count of failure to register as a sex offender.

According to the sheriff's office the arrest was part of their effort to proactively investigate reports of sex offenders who are not complying with Nevada's registration requirements.