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Sex Offender Sentenced for Failure to Register

sex-offenders(AP) — A 35-year-old former Omaha man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for failing to register in Nebraska as a sex offender.

Nebraska U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg announced that Stephen Tanner was sentenced earlier this week. After his release, Tanner will begin a five-year term of supervised release.

Gilg says Tanner was convicted in an Iowa state court of third-degree sexual abuse, requiring him to register as a sex offender. After his release from prison, Tanner moved to Omaha, but didn’t register as a sex offender in Nebraska. During a routine check in March, officers found Tanner wasn’t at the address he listed as his home.

He was found in West Berlin, N.J., in May and told police he had moved there in March.

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