12-4-15 National:When Richard Joseph, a convicted rapist from New York, got out of prison in 2006, he started down the path that would send him back to prison again.
Joseph did not get in trouble by sexually assaulting someone again. Instead, he ran afoul of laws that required him to register as a sex offender.
Once he failed to report to New York parole authorities, Joseph moved to Teaneck and then did not alert New Jersey State Police of his new address, officials said.
His freedom didn't last long. About five weeks after moving to Teaneck, he was picked up and jailed. On Jan. 4, Joseph, 43, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for failing to register.
That arrest and conviction put Joseph among a relatively small number of the registered sex offenders nationwide who get caught trying to re-establish their lives by moving to a new state and attempting to hide their criminal records, officials said.
