A man convicted of sex assault on a Lakewood teen was sentenced Wednesday to an additional 45 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender after getting out of prison and moving to Colorado.
Matthew Preston Caulk’s federal conviction for failure to register as a sex offender follows a prior sexual assault in Washington state, after which he moved to Colorado but failed to register here.
Caulk, 43, became the first person in Colorado indicted under the 2006 Adam Walsh Act.
Senior U.S. District Judge Walker D. Miller ordered that, after serving 45 months for failing to register as a sex offender, Caulk serve another eight years on supervised release.
Caulk was arrested in Colorado in October 2007 after he disappeared with a 16-year-old Lakewood girl who had been classified as an endangered runaway.
Caulk was located with the teenager after he was featured on America’s Most Wanted.
Caulk was convicted in Colorado of sexual assault and third-degree assault of a minor of the 16-year-old Lakewood girl. He was sentenced to 18 months.
Clark’s criminal history began in 2002 when he was convicted of a misdemeanor for sexual misconduct with a minor.
On Aug. 30, 2005, Caulk was convicted in Pierce County, Washington, for failure to register as a sex offender. In 2006, Caulk moved to Montana. He also failed to register as a sex offender there. Then he moved to Lakewood, where he was convicted of assaulting the teen, and later failed, once again, to register as a sex offender.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
