Old Faithful rangers located and served a felony warrant on Jerry Brownell, a convicted sex offender, last July. NPS investigators charged him with failing to register as a sex offender (18 USC 2250(a)) and a federal grand jury subsequently indicted him on that charge. The case stemmed from an investigation begun a month earlier into a case from 2002 that had been reopened. Rangers and agents learned that Brownell had been regularly traveling from state to state since 2001 without registering as a sex offender, as required by both federal and state law. On January 2nd, Brownell, who’d pled guilty to the charge, was sentenced in federal court. Brownell was:
sentenced to serve 167 days in federal custody (time already served);
placed on five years’ supervised release;
required to submit to DNA sample collection and additional processing, photographing and fingerprinting by federal probation officers;
ordered not to access the internet with any filtering device or to make any attempt to conceal names of internet sites visited;
barred from possessing or receiving any sexually-oriented telephone or electronic material;
ordered not to associate with any children under 18 years old (except in the presence of a responsible adult who has been made aware of his criminal history);
ordered to report his residence address immediately to local law enforcement offices (per provisions of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act); and
required to submit at any time to a warrantless search of his person, property, papers, or computer by any law enforcement or probation officer with reasonable suspicion concerning a violation of terms of release and/or unlawful conduct.
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