Man Sentenced for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender for the Second Time

Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Sire English, 31, was sentenced on September 15, 2023, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for failing to register as a sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Chief United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced English to imprisonment for 30 months in the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from federal prison, English will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.

On March 18, 2012, English was convicted of Child Enticement in the State of Iowa. He was sentenced to probation for two years and was thereafter required to register as a sex offender in any state in which he resided pursuant to the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), a federal law. Records obtained from the Iowa Sex Offender Registry indicate that on August 9, 2022, English registered as a sex offender in the State of Iowa and listed an address at an apartment in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

English was previously convicted of a SORNA felony in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on October 15th, 2018. At that time, he was sentenced to imprisonment for 15 months and a 5-year term of supervised release. On October 13, 2022, English was arrested on a federal warrant for violating the conditions of his supervised release from the prior case. At the time of his arrest, English was found by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) to be residing at an address at an apartment on Hamilton Street in Omaha. The USMS confirmed through additional investigation that English had been living in Omaha since April 8, 2022, and had moved out of his registered address in Council Bluffs in December of 2021.

English did not register or attempt to register, nor did he update his sex offender registration to show that he was residing in Omaha pursuant to the requirements of SORNA between approximately April 8, 2022, and October 18, 2022, when he was arrested.

This case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service.