Monongalia County man sentenced for sex offender registry violation

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Earnest Parrie Dille, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Dille, age 63, pled guilty to one count of “Failure to Update Sex Offender Registration” in August 2019. Dille, a person required to register as a sex offender, admitted to traveling from Idaho to West Virginia without updating his sex offender registration from January 2018 to April 2019.

This case is prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.  Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The United States Marshal Service investigated. 

Senior U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.