ALLENTOWN — A convicted pedophile described by a prosecutor as the "scariest sex offender this community has ever seen" when he was sentenced for stalking a 13-year-old boy who lived on his Allentown street pleaded guilty Monday to growing marijuana.
Clyde Ruppel, 74, was sentenced to nine to 18 months in Lehigh County Jail on possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia charges by Judge William E. Ford.