Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan, Failing to Register as Sex Offender, Oregon 2022

Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan

PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal jury in Portland found Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan, a 37-year-old man from Philomath, Oregon, guilty of failing to register as a sex offender on October 12, 2022.

According to court documents, Goering-Runyan was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in Nebraska state prison in September 2014 for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl. At his sentencing hearing, he acknowledged that his conviction would require him to register as a sex offender and reviewed and signed five more notices of his sex-offender registration obligations while in prison.

Upon his release from prison in September 2021, Goering-Runyan signed a certificate of service acknowledging his receipt of a letter from the Nebraska State Patrol advising him of his lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender. However, he failed to register as a sex offender in Oregon after relocating to Corvallis.

Goering-Runyan was arrested on May 4, 2022, by the Corvallis Police Department after a federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment charging him with one count of failing to register as a sex offender.

Failing to register as a sex offender is punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison. Goering-Runyan will be sentenced on November 30, 2022, by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Marco A. Hernández.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service in Portland and Omaha, Nebraska, with assistance from the Oregon State Police, the Corvallis and Philomath Police Departments, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, and the Lancaster County (Nebraska) Sheriff’s Office. It was prosecuted by Bryan Chinwuba, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.