Pennsylvania Man Sentenced for Sex Offender Registration Violation

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Larry Collins Bryan, 65, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 84 months for failing to update his sex offender registration.

According to court documents and statements made in court, officers were called to an apartment complex in Morgantown, West Virginia, for an altercation between Bryan and a female tenant in the complex who believed Bryan had inappropriately touched her child. Bryan was convicted of statutory rape of a minor in 1992 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, which requires him to register for life as a sex offender. Bryan had been living at the Morgantown complex for more than a year but had not registered as a sex offender in the state of West Virginia.

Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh found that Bryan committed the offense of third-degree sexual abuse against the child in violation of West Virginia law after the mother’s allegation was substantiated by a surveillance video.

Bryan will report for five years of supervised release following his prison sentence.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

This case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service and the West Virginia State Police.

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