sex offender sentenced to statutory man for failing to register
New Sexual Assault on Minor Enhances Sentence
Contact: Peter Deegan
A sex offender who failed to register with authorities was sentenced on October 28, 2010, to 10 years in federal prison.
Michael Lee Bevins, 43, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 17, 2010, guilty plea to one count of failing to register as a sex offender.
At the guilty plea, Bevins admitted to failing to properly update his sex offender registration from January 10, 2010 through March 29, 2010. Bevins was required to register because he was convicted in Black Hawk County in 1999 of sexual abuse in the third degree.
Bevins was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Bevins was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, the maximum punishment available. Bevins’s sentence was enhanced because the Court found he committed a sexual assault on a minor while he was unregistered. A special assessment of $100 was imposed, and he must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Bevins is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was investigated by the United States Marshal’s Service and the Cedar Rapids Police Department. This case was investigated as part of Operation Northern Star. In Operation Northern Star, deputies from the United States Marshal’s Service and local law enforcement officers across the 52 counties in the Northern District of Iowa teamed up to verify the registered addresses of 1745 sex offenders living in those counties.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR 10-30-LRR.
