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STARKE— A judge sentenced a registered sexual offender to 18 months in prison after he gave a false address to Florida’s sexual offender registry.
Glenn Dewayne Burch, 48, pleaded no contest to the Sept. 29, 2021, offense of failure to report a residence change by a sexual offender.
The defendant was convicted in 1993 of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 16 years of age in Suwannee County. As part of his sentence, he was added to the state’s sexual offender database.
According to court papers, in Sept. 2021, Bradford deputies found that upon release from the Department of Corrections, Burch told FDC officials that he would be living at a Pine Street address in Starke. However, Burch’s Florida ID card listed a Southeast 144th Street address as his home and the state’s sexual offender database listed his home on Market Road.
Deputies attempted to contact the defendant at all three locations but failed to find Burch. However, a neighbor at the Southeast 144th Street address said the defendant had not lived in the area for the year the neighbor resided there.
A man living at the Market Road address gave deputies the same story.
“Burch never lived there,” a deputy wrote in a sworn complaint. “(Burch) just used (the witness’s) address for the sex offender registry.”
A Pine Street resident confirmed that Burch had been living on that road. However, a City of Starke ordinance prohibits sexual offenders from residing at that location.
