Vermont Man Pleads Guilty
Posted/updated on: September 8, 2011 at 4:17 pm
TYLER – In an appearance in federal court in Tyler, A 60-year-old Vermont man has pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender. Raymond Leo Lemaire, Jr., pleaded guilty yesterday to failure to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act when he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith K. Guthrie. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing. A sentencing date has not been set.
Federal prosecutors say in June 2010, Lemaire moved to Whitehouse, Texas, after having been previously convicted in 2004 in Vermont of the felony offense of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor. Lemaire failed to register as a sex offender, as required, upon his move to Texas.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 13, 2011.
