Elliot J. Santiago, a 25-year-old resident of Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced to time served and five years of supervised release for failing to provide information about his interstate travel as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
Santiago was obligated to comply with SORNA due to a conviction for first-degree sexual abuse in Monongalia County Circuit Court on August 28, 2019. Between May 30, 2023, and October 25, 2023, he did not notify authorities of his travels from Charleston, West Virginia, to Toledo, Ohio, and subsequently to Brooklyn, New York.
United States Attorney Will Thompson announced the sentencing and praised the investigative efforts of the United States Marshals Service. Santiago had spent approximately one year and two months in custody before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston delivered the sentence. Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan T. Storage led the prosecution.
SORNA is part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. It establishes minimum standards for sex offender registration and notification across the U.S., requiring offenders to maintain current registration in all jurisdictions where they live, work or study.
Further details can be accessed through the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia's website or by searching Case No. 2:23-cr-174 on PACER.