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

BOSTON - A New York man, formerly residing in Massachusetts, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.

Angel Luis Morales, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to 18 months in prison and five years of supervised release. In November 2018, Morales pleaded guilty to one count of failing to register as a sex offender.

Between 2013 and 2014, Morales was convicted in New York and Massachusetts of multiple sex offenses including open and gross lewdness and indecent assault and battery. These offenses involved multiple victims, and as a result, Morales was designated a Level III sex offender and required, among other things, 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. 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.

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. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth G. Shine of Lelling’s Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case.