Angel Luis Morales, Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, Massachusetts 2018

New York Man Sentenced for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender

BOSTON - Angel Luis Morales, a 31-year-old man from New York, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender in Massachusetts.

Morales was convicted in New York and Massachusetts of multiple sex offenses between 2013 and 2014, including open and gross lewdness and indecent assault and battery. As a result, he was designated a Level III sex offender and required to register for life with the Sex Offender Registry Board in any state in which he resided, worked, or attended school.

In 2017, Morales registered with the Sex Offender Registry Board in Massachusetts listing a Roxbury address. However, in March 2018, law enforcement in New York discovered that Morales had relocated to Rochester, N.Y. and had not updated his registration in New York or notified officials in Massachusetts of his relocation.

On May 18, 2018, Morales was arrested in Rochester and charged in the Western District of New York with failing to register as a sex offender. Morales was ordered detained without bail. He then requested that his case be transferred back to Massachusetts.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Morales to 18 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Morales pleaded guilty to one count of failing to register as a sex offender in November 2018.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth G. Shine of Lelling’s Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case. United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; United States Attorney for the Western District of New York James P. Kennedy Jr.; John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal for the District of Massachusetts; and Rochester (N.Y.) Police Chief Mark Simmons made the announcement.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/new-york-man-sentenced-failure-register-sex-offender-0