Webb City sex offender sentenced to 10 years for registration violation

Jeff Lehr, The Joplin Globe, Mo.
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Jun. 20—A Jasper County judge this week sentenced a Webb City resident to 10 years in prison for violating the state's sex offender registration law.

Circuit Judge Gayle Crane assessed Donald R. Annis, 55, the prison time on a conviction for failure to register as a sex offender at his sentencing hearing Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge April 1 in a plea agreement capping the prison time he might receive at no more than 10 years.

Annis was arrested on the charge in December 2022 after a Jasper County sheriff's office investigator conducting compliance checks on registered sex offenders discovered that he was no longer residing at the address he had provided the sheriff's office.

Annis was convicted in 1994 in Newton County of having deviate sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old victim in Neosho and is required to keep his registration current with the sheriff's office in the county in which he resides.

Jeff Lehr is a reporter for The Joplin Globe.