Martinsburg man sentenced to prison for falsifying passport

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Bobby Allen Stark, age 52, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison for falsifying his passport.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Stark was charged with sexual assault of a child in El Paso County, Colorado in April 2022 and ordered to surrender his passport. Upon returning to his home in Martinsburg, Stark applied for a new passport, claiming on the application form that he had lost the old one. He was able to obtain a new passport and shortly before his scheduled plea hearing in the Colorado case, Stark flew to Guyana, a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast, where he was later apprehended.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kyle Kane and Kimberley Crockett prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service investigated. The U.S. Marshals Service assisted.

U.S. District Judge Gina M. Groh presided.