Former Dorchester resident Jonathan Fey, 45, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years of supervised release by the Boston U.S. District Court on Tuesday, January 20. Fey pleaded guilty of failing to register as a sex offender in October of 2014.

Fey's history of sexual harassment dates as far back as 1989 when he was charged with a sex offense in Rhode Island, according to prosecutors. Fey's first conviction was sentenced in March of 2001, on charges of rape and indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14. In June 2010, Fey was released from prison under 10 years of probation and was registered as a Level II Sex Offender as required by the court.

At some point in July 2011, without permission from or notification to the probation department, Fey left Massachusetts and moved to Kentucky, Arkansas, and most recently in Ohio. But he never registered as a sex offender in any of those states, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.

Last May, Fey was apprehended in Ohio and returned to Massachusetts. Ortiz and John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal for District of Massachusetts, made the announcement.