A man has been charged in Sequoyah County District Court for failing to comply with his sex offender registration after moving from Muldrow to Roland.
Daniel L. Dennis, 40, was charged May 8 and received a $10,000 bond. He is now scheduled for a June 5 felony disposition docket before Associate District Judge Kyle Waters, according to court records.
Roland Asst. Police Chief Chris Waters said on April 15 he was helping fellow officer Alex Cabrera with a case when he discovered a statement from Dennis showing he had a Muldrow address. Waters said Dennis had to be out of the residence by 5 p.m. that day after authorities responded to an animal cruelty call the day before.
Waters said after speaking with sex offender registration, he found out that Dennis, a coonvicted sex offender, had not informed authorities that he was moving to another address, as required by law.
An administrative manager with Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODC) said the last notation for Dennis showed that he’d called in about his address verification on March 1. However, police did have a notarized statement on file to verify that he was still living in Roland on March 27, according to the affidavit filed in the case.
ODC also said as of April 15, Dennis had not notified them of his most recent address change.
According to the administrative manager, Dennis is required to notify DOC and local law enforcement three days prior to moving to another address in the State of Oklahoma. He then has three days to notify DOC and local law enforcement after moving to the new address.
It was later discovered Dennis had been to the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office on April 16 and registered with them. However, he did not disclose at that time that he was moving to another residence in another town.
Later that day, Dennis was arrested for a felony warrant out of Sequoyah County by Roland police. While being booked at Roland and awaiting transport, he still did not disclose that he’d moved to another residence, according to the affidavit.
District Attorney Jack Thorp said the charge is punishable by incarceration in a correctional facility for not more than five years and a fine not to exceed $5,000, or both.
