A convicted sex offender is back behind bars after authorities say he broke into a Forestdale home, and started trying on the victim's clothing.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies late Friday afternoon were sent to a home in the 1600 block of Ridgewood Trail on a report of a burglary in progress. The homeowner told lawmen he left the back door unlocked while he went to the store because his nephew was on his way to visit and he wanted him to be able to get inside, said Chief Deputy Randy Christian.

When the 24-year-old nephew got to his uncle's home, he found a man he didn't know in a rear bedroom dressing in his uncle's clothes. Christian said the nephew locked himself in another bedroom and called his uncle. The uncle called the sheriff's office and headed home.

When deputies got to the house, they found the suspect still in the bedroom, trying to hide under the bed's comforter and pillows. He refused to give deputies his name, but they finally identified him as 35-year-old Terry Le Daye Mitchell of Forestdale.

Christian said Mitchell is a convicted sex offender, but was not in possession of his sex offender identification card, which is required by law. Mitchell was convicted in 1999 of first-degree rape of a child under the age of 16.

Authorities charged Mitchell with third-degree burglary, violation of the sex offender registration and notification act, theft of property and resisting arrest. He is in the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $26,000.