Maryland man sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Richard Shawn Edwards, 40, of Cumberland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Edwards was previously convicted of “Second Degree Rape” in 1993 in the Circuit Court of Allegany County, Maryland. As a result of that conviction, he was required to register as a sex offender. Further, Edwards has been convicted on three separate occasions in Mineral County, West Virginia for failing to register as a sex offender.

An investigation by the United States Marshals Service, the Ridgeley, West Virginia Police Department, and the Cumberland, Maryland Police Department, revealed that in late 2014, Edwards moved from Ridgeley, West Virginia to Cumberland, Maryland without updating his sex offender registration.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Camilletti prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

Chief U.S. District Judge Gina M. Groh presided.