MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Jefferson County man has been sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender.
US Attorney Bill Ihlenfeld’s office announced 66-year-old Frederick M. Hilliard of Charles Town was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration.
Hilliard pleaded guilty in August 2021 to one count of “Failure to Register.” Hilliard admitted to not updating his sex offender registration from February to October 2019 in Jefferson County, as required by law, because of a rape conviction in Pennsylvania.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberley D. Crockett prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The U.S. Marshals Service investigated.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gina M. Groh presided.