Search for Missing Woman.

The search continued on Sunday for Laura Garza, the 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who vanished on Wednesday and was last seen with a convicted sex offender.The sex offender, Michael Mele, 23, was in the Rockland County Jail, where he was being held on a probation violation, according to Detective Lt. William Barbera of the Rockland County sheriff’s office.In a statement released on Sunday, the New York State Police, the agency heading the investigation into Ms. Garza’s disappearance, said that Mr. Mele “has a history of being sexually aggressive toward women and confronting women in secluded areas to perform lewd acts.” Mr. Mele was sentenced to probation in cases involving forcibly touching four women at the Palisades Center mall in Rockland County, according to an employee of the State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex-offender registry.