A Florida sex offender known as “Joker” in court records going back more than a decade was found overdosed on July 8, a day after he was released from jail and cut off his ankle monitor.

Albert Gardner, 29, was taken back to jail after Narcan reversed his overdose and charged with violating parole and tampering with an electronic monitoring device, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

Gardner had served nine years for lewd or lascivious battery with a victim between 12- and 15-years old before he was paroled, the sheriff’s office said.

According to the sheriff’s office, a parole officer noted that Gardner’s GPS tracker had been at a 7-Eleven gas station in Brooksville “for an unusual amount of time,” but he’d been unable to locate his parolee. Deputies were called in to help and found Gardner’s ankle monitor in a garbage can at the convenience store.

Shortly after finding the tracker, a call came in about an overdose less than a mile down the street. Deputies responded and found that the man overdosing was Gardner.

Court records say Gardner’s first “deliquency adjudication” came on a sexual battery charge when he was 13 in 2007, according to WPEC. Then, in 2014, he was again found guilty of sexual battery and received the GPS tracker.

He has other convictions going back to 2012 for various charges, including criminal mischief, burglary, battery, theft, and driving without a license.

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[Featured image: Albert Gardner/Hernando County Sheriff’s Office]