Lifetime sex offender charged with failing to update address after moving from Tarentum apartment

A former Tarentum man who is on the state Megan’s Law list as a lifetime sex offender was accused by the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office of failing to inform authorities when he moved out of his home last fall.

James Edward Sundberg, 66, who lived in the 200 block of East Sixth Avenue, was charged with felony counts of failing to provide accurate registration information, failing to register with the state police and failure to verify his address.

Parolees on the Megan’s Law list are required to notify the state police within 72 hours after changing their address, according to investigators.

Sundberg waived his right to a preliminary hearing before District Judge Carolyn S. Bengel on Wednesday, Jan. 12 and was ordered to stand trial in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, according to court documents. A formal arraignment is scheduled for March 3.

Sundberg was added to the state’s sex offender registration list in 2003. He pleaded guilty in July 1993 to committing rape and incest, according to investigators. The Megan’s Law requiring sex offenders to register was passed in May 1996.

A pair of county sheriff’s deputies conducting a Megan’s Law compliance check in late December said they spoke to the landlord of the apartment Sundberg listed when he last registered in December 2020, according to his arrest papers.

The landlord told the deputies he bought the property in October and Sundberg was not a current tenant. He said he had “never seen or heard” of Sundberg.

The Megan’s Law website shows Sundberg last updated his address on Dec. 31 to a home in the 170 block of Pembrooke Drive in Salem Township.