By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
Tyson Collins will remain in the Los Alamos Detention Center until March 15 when he is slated to go before Fifth Judicial District Chief Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer for a status hearing on his living arrangements and electronic monitoring issues in his home state of Washington.
Collins pleaded guilty Feb. 1 to solicitation and sexual exploitation of children charges in connection with his online contact with a 15-year-old Los Alamos girl after she posted on an app called “Whisper” asking for log-information for Netflix.
Collins was placed on supervised probation for five years with a minimum of 1.5 years on electronic monitoring. He is required to register as a sex offender for life and is prohibited from returning to New Mexico except for Court hearings during his probation. Judge Marlowe Sommers also ordered sex offender treatment for one year in Washington state. She told him if he didn’t comply she would extradite him back to New Mexico and that he would serve 12.5 years.
At a Feb. 22 hearing, the Court heard that Collins had planned to live with his mother at an apartment complex but that the landlord would not accept him due to his sex offender status. Collins told the Court his sister is trying to work things out so that he can live with her. The issue of whether or not Collins would be allowed to work under his sex offender probation conditions in Washington state was raised because electronic monitoring there costs $600 a month.
Judge Marlowe Sommers said she wanted no probabilities at the March 15 hearing.
