Local man pleads guilty over lack of notification
Doolittle is a registered sex offender
TEXARKANA, Ark. — A man required to register as a sex offender pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday for allegedly moving from Texarkana, Texas, to Texarkana, Ark., without notifying either city’s police department.
Terry Edward Doolittle Jr., 43, appeared on video Tuesday morning for arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas. Doolittle also appeared for an initial appearance on a motion to revoke supervised release involving an earlier conviction for failing to register as a sex offender.
Doolittle has been in and out of federal and state prisons since being convicted in Syracuse, New York, in January 2008 of a sex crime involving a 13-year-old. The additional time behind bars stems from repeated violations of sex-offender reporting requirements.
At a 2016 hearing in federal court in Texarkana, Ark., Harrelson commented that Doolittle is “doing life on the installment plan.”
Doolittle was arrested April 13, 2011, and indicted the following month for failing to register as a sex offender in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas. He was sentenced Feb. 22, 2012, to 24 months in federal prison plus a lifetime of supervised release by federal probation officials ordered to follow.
In May 2013 Doolittle received a 12-month federal prison sentence for again violating the conditions of his supervised release. In October 2014 a 10-month federal prison was imposed for violations of supervised release. In November 2015, Doolittle was again accused of failing to adhere to his supervised release conditions and a 12-month sentence followed in April 2016.
In 2017 Doolittle was charged in Miller County, Ark., circuit court with failing to register as a sex offender. At around the same time, federal officials took action to address that allegation as a violation of his supervised release.
Doolittle pleaded guilty in Miller County and was sentenced Aug. 14, 2017, to three years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. In December of the same year, U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey ordered Doolittle to serve 12 months in federal prison for violating his supervised release and ordered that he serve that time consecutively to the time he was serving in state court.
Doolittle was released from federal prison April 14. He allegedly told federal officials he was living with his father in Texarkana, Texas, and was instructed to register as a sex offender with that city’s police department. A federal probation officer was allegedly told by Doolittle’s father April 30 that Doolittle was living in Texarkana, Ark. In May the officer made contact with Doolittle at a residence in Texarkana, Ark., and allegedly told him to contact both city police departments. Officials allege that Doolittle has not registered with any law enforcement agency as a sex offender since his release in April.
Doolittle was arrested June 4 on a criminal complaint alleging failure to register as a sex offender in the Western District of Arkansas. Doolittle was formally indicted last week by a federal grand jury. Following Doolittle’s hearing Tuesday, a Sept. 4 trial date was scheduled. Doolittle is being held in the Miller County jail.