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March 21, 2007

Sex offender guilty of not registering

A Fort Gibson man pleaded guilty in Muskogee County District Court for failing to register as a sex offender.

Jared Matthews, 21, was handed a five-year suspended sentence Tuesday, which will run concurrently with a previous convictions as a youthful offender for lewd molestation and sodomy.

Matthews was serving two five-year suspended sentences for those convictions when he was charged with failure to register as a sex offender.

That charge was filed after authorities learned the man lived within 2,000 feet from a school, which prompted prosecutors to file a civil suit to force him out of the house. Matthews later moved out of that home and into the home of a woman who had minor children but failed to register at the new address.

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