A 67-year-old former Kirkland resident was arrested April 17 at his Chicago high rise apartment on a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender.

Maurice Kuit was convicted for felony voyeurism and failing to register as a sex offender in 2003 while living in Kirkland.

Kuit, who is being held in a Cook County Jail, waived extradition on the felony warrant that was issued in King County. Authorities now have less than 30 days to bring Kuit back to Washington State or he will be released from Cook County Jail.

Kuit, who is a level three sex offender, was arrested in Chicago after he attempted to leave a grocery store with items, but told store employees and police that he could not figure out how to operate the self checkout kiosk. When store employees refused to sign a complaint, officers escorted Kuit, who had no identification with him, to his home. When Chicago police contacted a building employee about emergency contact information for Kuit, the employee only had Kuit’s previous address in Kirkland. Kuit had only lived in the building since February. Officers arrested him after a search revealed the warrant.

A no-bail $1 million warrant was issued for Kuit on Feb. 17, said King County Sheriff spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart.

According to a story on Q13 Fox news that aired prior to Kuit’s arrest in Chicago, Kuit used his clean cut looks to pose as a business man at the Columbia Tower and fake illness at Swedish Hospital and pretend to be a doctor at Virginia Mason. He caught hundreds of women off guard by giving them a sad story. Then he would drop something, ask them to pick it up, “sneak a peak,” run off and reportedly masturbate.

“This is a very well groomed, well dressed individual who blends in very well with the upper class society,” Washington State Department of Corrections spokesman Brooks Raymond told Q13 in the report. “… He is a master manipulator.”

Kuit also has prior convictions for assault.