A rapist could be headed back to Montana State Prison after violating the terms of his parole.

Michael Kullberg, 27, is serving a 13-year suspended portion of a 20-year prison sentence handed down for sexual assault in 2006. Kullberg was jailed last week after allegedly trying to get another couple to buy bus tickets to Arizona for him and his family, days before Thursday’s hearing.

 Kullberg was paroled to Hawaii in 2014, but ended up getting kicked out of the state because he was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and was terminated from a sex offender treatment program, according to Libby Probation and Parole Officer Darrell Vanderhoef.

Vanderhoef said that Kullberg returned to Kalispell in January 2015, worked for a while at a marina kitchen in Bigfork, and then returned to the Eureka area, where he did not find employment.

Kullberg’s attorney, David Mattingley, argued that Kullberg did try to find jobs at gas stations, but that it is difficult for convicted sex offenders to find employment in Eureka. Kullberg started his own tattoo shop in late 2015.

Vanderhoef said the county health department shut the shop down in 2015 before it legally opened in 2016. Vanderhoef said he had previously warned Kullberg that he needed to operate the shop legally.

Vanderhoef also testified that Kullberg associated with other probationers, was found frequenting bars, tested positive for alcohol consumption on numerous occasions, drove without a license, drove without a license with alcohol in his system, and was cited for disorderly conduct for getting into an altercation with his wife.

“As of now he has not entered treatment,” Vanderhoef said of Kullberg’s requirement to be enrolled in sex offender therapy.

Kullberg was also caught at Eureka Elementary School on one occasion, even though he is not permitted to be there, Vanderhoef said.

Kullberg was required to register his address with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office but did not give the proper address, according to Vanderhoef.

“He gave me one number and he walked over to the Sheriff’s Office and gave a different number,” Vanderhoef said.

 Flathead District Judge Heidi Ulbricht on Thursday found enough violations to revoke Kullberg’s parole.

He faces sentencing on June 13. At that time the judge also will hear arguments about which level Kullberg should be classified as a sex offender.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.