Muskogee Resident Pleads Guilty To Failure To Register As A Sex Offender

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Andrew Thomas Edwards, age 44, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Failure to Register as Sex Offender.

The Indictment alleged that Edwards received felony convictions from the State of Oklahoma for Lewd Molestation on September 20, 2011, for Indecent Exhibition of Child Pornography on November 15, 2001, and for Lewd Molestation on January 28, 2015, and was required to register as a sex offender.  From June 4, 2024, until September 21, 2024, Edwards failed to register and update his registration despite entering, leaving, or residing in Indian country, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charge arose from an investigation by the United States Marshals Service and the Muskogee Police Department.

The Honorable Gerald L. Jackson, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.  Edwards will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Pippin represented the United States.