Bloomsburg, Pa. — A New England sex offender has been jailed on federal charges in Columbia County.
Carlos Torres, 60, was indicted June 25 by a federal grand jury for failing to register as a sex offender upon relocating to Bloomsburg from Connecticut, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District Pa. announced.
The indictment alleges that from October 2025 and continuing to June 9 this year, despite being required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), upon moving to Bloomsburg, Torres failed to register his address as required by SORNA.
Torres was placed on the sex offender registry in 2017 for sexual assault in the fourth degree, a Connecticut code generally involving unwanted sexual touching, after being convicted for an incident involving a minor in 2015.
The maximum penalty under federal law for the failure to register offense is 10 years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine.
Torres was jailed in the Columbia County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail on June 9 for local charges of failure to register with PSP and failure to update address, and remains there as the federal case begins.
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