CEDAR RAPIDS – A convicted sex offender who lived in Iowa for three weeks without registering was sentenced today to more than a year in federal prison.
Lucas Hertrampf, age 30, from Lancaster, Wisconsin, received the prison term after a December 1, 2017, guilty plea to failing to register as a sex offender.
Information from the sentencing hearing showed that Hertrampf was required to register as a sex offender because he was previously convicted of sexual assault involving the use of force. While still on probation for that conviction, Hertrampf had his supervision revoked seven times. In April 2017, Hertrampf was charged with stealing a car in Grant County, Wisconsin. He was scheduled to appear in court on that charge on June 26. Hertrampf failed to appear for that hearing. Instead, law enforcement found Hertrampf in Clayton County, Iowa, on June 29. Hertrampf had been living in Iowa for three weeks. During that time, he did not register as a sex offender as he was required to do.
Hertrampf was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Hertrampf was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 5-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Hertrampf is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
