A Sugar Grove man faces a lengthy state prison term on charges that he failed to update his sexual offender registration as well as DUI.

Leonard D. Edmisten, 56, was sentenced by President Judge Maureen Skerda on Friday.

His attorney, Chief Public Defender Mike Kitay, told the court that his client was “essentially homeless” when charged for failing to update his registration but was honest with the officer at the time.

Edmisten told Skerda he is sorry for his actions and has an alcohol problem.

“You have a little more than an alcohol problem here,” Skerda said.

She detailed his prior record, which includes statutory sodomy, DUI, burglary, contraband and assault, leaving his prior record as that of a repeat felon.

According to the affidavit of probable cause in the registration case, Pennsylvania State Police went to check on Edmisten at his listed residence. They did not find him there, and the property owner said Edmisten was not living there, according to the affidavit.

Police located Edmisten at a Route 27 address in Garland later that day, and charged him with failure to verify address.

Online court records add that the DUI incident occurred in Pittsfield Township on Jan. 2, 2020.

Skerda then sentenced him on the DUI charge to 24 to 60 months in state prison, $2,625 in fines and fees, participation in the alcohol highway safety school and priority for drug and alcohol treatment as well as $70 on a count of careless driving.

He was sentenced to another 40 to 80 months in prison, $500 in fines and fees and credit for 423 days time served on the sex offender registration offense.