WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- A convicted sex offender has been accused of violating parole by creating a profile on the social networking site MySpace.com.

The attorney general's office identified the man as Christopher Montefusco, 30, of Woodbridge, and said he was taken into custody Thursday by state Department of Correction officials.

Montefusco had registered two different profiles of himself on the site, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said.

Last week, MySpace officials provided law enforcement in all 50 states with the names of more than 5,000 people it had identified as sex offenders who had created profiles.

More than 200 of the registered sex offenders with MySpace profiles live in Connecticut, according to Blumenthal.

Montefusco had been convicted of first-degree sexual assault on Aug. 30, 1996. He served 2½ years in prison. Montefusco has two years of special parole remaining on his sentence, Blumenthal said. Special parole usually involves close supervision and sometimes mandatory participation in support programs.

Blumenthal said that one of the conditions of Montefusco's parole was that he not use a computer or the Internet or access social networking sites such as MySpace without first obtaining permission from his parole officer.

"The results here demonstrate the urgent and clear need for this kind of information from MySpace and other social networking sites," Blumenthal said. "Clearly, offenders like this are just the most visible tip of the predator iceberg."

Montefusco was being held at the New Haven Correctional Facility pending an appearance at Superior Court in New Haven. If Montefusco is convicted of the parole violation, he could be ordered back to prison for two years.

Blumenthal said that Montefusco established his first MySpace profile on Aug. 25, 2005. He established a second profile on Oct. 13, 2005.

Social networking sites such as MySpace allow users to create online profiles with photos, music and personal information, and let them send messages to one another and, in many cases, browse other profiles.

"There may be more arrests because there may be others violating their parole conditions by this kind of activity on the social-networking sites," Blumenthal said. "We're going to use all information available and pursue additional information to make sure children are protected."

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