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Photo: Courtesy / FBI Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Image 2 of 7 The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. Photo: Courtesy / FBI Image 3 of 7 The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. Photo: Courtesy / FBI Image 4 of 7 The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. Photo: Courtesy / FBI Image 5 of 7 Image 6 of 7 The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. The FBI is looking for Kevin Anthony Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week. Photo: Courtesy / FBI Image 7 of 7 Wanted sex offender seen in Bay Area 1 / 7 Back to Gallery

The FBI is asking for the public’s help in finding a felon who escaped police custody in Montana and was spotted in the Bay Area last week.

Kevin Anthony Briggs, 28, was arrested Feb. 1 after being accused of strangling a woman in Bozeman, Mont. When police found him and tried to take him in, he hit one of the officers in the face, according to the FBI.

He managed to escape custody before he was transferred to the Law and Justice Center in Bozeman. Investigators lost track of him after he traveled to Missoula, Mont., and purchased a one-way bus ticket to Spokane, Wash.

Briggs, a registered sex offender, was on probation for sexual intercourse without consent, aggravated kidnapping, escape and burglary in Lewis and Clark County, Mont.

He was spotted last week in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, according to the FBI. Investigators believe he may be traveling to Oregon, Washington state or Mexico, and may be staying in homeless shelters while he works to earn enough money for travel.

Briggs should be considered armed, dangerous and suicidal, according to the FBI.

Briggs — who also goes by the aliases Aimee MacIntire, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Briggs, Kevin A. Briggs, Timothy McCoy, James Meismer and James Zenon Meismer — is between 5 foot 5 and 5 foot 7 and weighs about 120 to 150 pounds.

He has brown hair, hazel eyes, a sunburst tattoo around his right nipple, a tattoo in his armpit and a tattoo on his lower lip. He wears a double “snake bite” piercing on his bottom lip and has a bellybutton piercing and pierced ears.

Briggs was last seen wearing gray sweatpants, a dark-colored hooded jacket, black shoes and a dark baseball cap.

Anyone with information is asked to call the nearest FBI office or 911, or submit a tip to tips.fbi.gov. The FBI San Francisco office can be reached at (415) 553-7400 in the San Francisco area.