An off-duty Limestone County sheriff’s investigator busted a convicted sex offender accused of setting up party equipment around children Saturday, records show.

Earlier this month, Investigator Tim McNeill had read on Facebook that 61-year-old James Harold Bingham Jr. was working for a party rental company in violation of the state Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act, said Limestone County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Stephen Young. On Saturday, McNeill was driving in Athens when he spotted Bingham and a bounce house at a residence on Oakdale Road, Young said.

According to state law, “no adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position at any … mobile vending business that provides services primarily to children or any other business or organization that provides services primarily to children.” While Bingham was registered to work in Limestone County as an employee of Young’s Tractors in Toney, he was not registered as an employee of a party rental company, Young said.

McNeill didn’t have handcuffs on him when he stopped, but he pulled over to arrest Bingham anyway.

“He called dispatch and had a deputy come out while he sat there, talking to Bingham,” Young said.

He is charged with a SORNA violation and is free on $15,000 bond.

Records show this is not Bingham’s first arrest for violating SORNA’s employment requirements. He was arrested in January 2015 after then-Investigator Stephen Croley went to do a compliance check at Bingham’s place of employment and discovered Bingham had resigned the previous October without informing LCSO.

According to that 2015 complaint, “As a convicted sex offender, James Bingham Jr. is required by law to immediately report in person to the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office to change his employment status.”

Bingham became a registered sex offender after being convicted in December 2009 of second-degree sexual abuse involving an 11-year-old female, according to state sex offender records.