MONTICELLO – A 36-year-old
White Sulphur Springs man sentenced in Sullivan County Court to two to
six years in state prison on the felony of failure to register as a sex
offender.
District Attorney James Farrell said Allen Weeks, who is a level one sex
offender as a result of a conviction for sodomy in 2005, was on a term
of probation for a previous failure to register a conviction that occurred
in 2015 in Sullivan County.
Probation officers learned that Weeks had a Facebook account that he had
not registered with the Department of Criminal Justice Services as required
by law. Those officers observed a video posted on that page that showed
Weeks pulling a revolver from his waistband and aiming it at the camera.
After that was discovered, probation officers in cooperation with the
District Attorney’s office sought a search order from county court
after when officers found several pornographic magazines, a small black
scale and a quantity of marijuana. No gun was found.
Weeks entered a plea of guilty to failure to register the Facebook account
and also admitted that he violated the terms of his probation.
He was sentenced to one to three years in prison for the probation to
run concurrent to the two to six year prison sentence.
