Press Release

Sex Offender Sentenced to Prison for Violating the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

For Immediate Release

U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Cory Alan Kinsel, also known as “Cory Alan Hatcher,” 38, was sentenced today to one year and two months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, with the first six months of release to be served at a halfway house, for failing to register and update his registration as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) after relocating from West Virginia to Ohio and obtaining employment in Kentucky.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on February 2, 2025, a law enforcement officer conducting a compliance check on Kinsel determined that Kinsel had left his registered address, a Charleston men’s shelter, without updating his registration.…