St. Croix Man Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Failing To Register As Sex Offender

St. Thomas, USVI – Carl Nicholas Decicco, 35, of St. Croix, was sentenced today for failure to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy sentenced Decicco to 9 months and 2 weeks in federal prison followed by a period of supervised release, to include two weeks of home confinement, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.
Decicco was convicted of first degree unlawful sexual contact on May 19, 2004 and was required to register as a sex offender as a result of that conviction. He was arrested after failing to update his information on the sex offender registry during a period from March 2018 to August 2019. Decicco pled guilty to the one-count indictment on December 9, 2019, and has been in custody since that time.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.