BOISE - Martin Daniel Atkins, 32, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 36 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, for failing to register as a sex offender, and violating the terms of his supervised release, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Atkins pleaded guilty to the charges on October 6, 2015.
According to the plea agreement, Atkins was convicted in May 2005, of sexual abuse of a minor in U.S. District Court. As a result of the conviction, Atkins was required to register and update his registration under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Atkins was previously convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in Canyon County, Idaho in 2010, and in U.S. District Court in 2011 and 2013. After release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in May of 2015, Atkins registered as a sex offender with the State of Idaho, listing his residence as a half-way house in Boise. He was also subject to federal supervised release. On June 5, 2015, Atkins moved to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada. Upon moving from Boise, Atkins did not update his State of Idaho sex offender registration, nor did he notify his probation officer of his whereabouts. Atkins was arrested on July 2, 2015, by officers with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service (USMS), the United States Probation Office, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Martin Daniel Atkins was prosecuted for a violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) passed by Congress in 2006. The Act requires sex offenders to register and keep their registration current in each jurisdiction where they reside. Violations of SORNA can be prosecuted in federal court.