Brick Man Gets Three-Year Sentence For Megan's Law Violation

A man who is a convicted sex offender but failed to register with police when he moved to Brick Township has been sentenced to three years in prison and lifetime parole supervision, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

Peter J. Jacobs, 35, pleaded guilty before Ocean County Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter to a violation of third-degree community supervision for life. The sentence is concurrent to a sentence Jacobs is serving at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Delmont for drug possession, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.

Jacobs was arrested Jan. 16, 2015, by Senior Parole Officer Timothy Sullivan and he has been in jail ever since, Della Fave said.

Information on Jacobs’ conviction that resulted in the Megan’s Law registration requirement was not available.

The matter was prosecuted by Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Ehsan F. Chowdhry of the Megan’s Law Unit of the Special Investigations Bureau and Deputy Public Defender Dawn M. Nee represented Jacobs. Chowdhry argued the three-year concurrent sentence was appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances of Jacobs’ case, Della Fave said.

Jacobs’ sentence included placing him on parole supervision for life in addition to community supervision for life, Della Fave said, under a state law that mandates that a person who violates community supervision for life rules.

Jacobs, who is scheduled to be released from prison in December 2016, will have to continue to comply with his community and parole supervision for life terms when he is released, Della Fave said.