Serial rapist ex-NFL player Darren Sharper registers as sex offender in Virginia

Former pro-football player Darren Sharper appears in court along with his attorneys Blair Berk, right, and Leonard Levine on 14 February 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Liz O Baylen/Pool via Getty Images View image in fullscreen Former pro-football player Darren Sharper appears in court along with his attorneys Blair Berk, right, and Leonard Levine on 14 February 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Liz O Baylen/Pool via Getty Images Serial rapist ex-NFL player Darren Sharper registers as sex offender in Virginia Sharper, who pleaded guilty or no contest to raping women in four states, was transferred to a halfway house in May Convicted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has registered as a sex offender in his home state of Virginia, after being transferred from federal prison to a halfway house there, according to official records. With a projected 2028 release date nearing, the US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) recently confirmed that the 50-year-old Sharper had been moved on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to either home confinement or a facility colloquially known as a halfway house overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore. But that office’s jurisdiction encompasses the region including Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia , and the BoP stopped short of saying in what community Sharper had been placed. After he pleaded guilty in 2015 and 2016 to a series of druggings and rapes of women across four states, it was mandatory for Sharper to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Records that Virginia state police are legally required to maintain and make publicly available show Sharper registered as a sex offender there on 1 June. Those records in the process listed his primary address as a halfway house in the community of Newport News, about 70 miles (113km) south-east from his home town of Richmond, Virginia. They also had an updated picture of Sharper, who has been all but out of the public light since his pleading guilty. He had dreadlocks and a short beard in the image. Darren Sharper’s sex offender registry photo Photograph: Virginia state police An attorney for Sharper did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest to state-level charges of drugging and raping – or trying to rape – numerous women in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Tempe, Arizona. He also pleaded guilty in New Orleans’s federal courthouse to illegally conspiring to carry out the druggings and the rapes. The US district judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced Sharper to 18 years in prison in August 2016, giving him credit for the time he had served in authorities’ custody since his initial arrest in the case in February 2014. Many people sentenced to federal prison can become eligible for release after having served about 85% of their punishments. And they can in effect lower th