United States of America v. Adrien Cole

Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking.



In 2014, Cole was sentenced to 120 months' imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release following his conviction for sex-trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (b)(2) (the sex-trafficking case). His term of supervised release started in 2021. During that period, Cole feigned a medical condition to avoid sex offender treatment and drug testing. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 for falsifying medical records and received a 6-month sentence of imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release (the false statement case). On the same day he was sentenced on the false statement case, Cole's supervised release in the sex-trafficking case was also revoked, and he received a sentence of 18 months of imprisonment, to run consecutively with his false statement sentence, for a total of 24 months. Cole was also ordered to serve concurrent terms of supervised release upon conclusion of his custodial sentence.



In March 2024, Cole started his second term of supervised release. By May, he had accumulated five violations of the conditions of his release, including a new law violation: failing to register his vehicle and phone number with Nebraska

authorities in violation of Nebraska's sex offender registry requirements.2 Under Nebraska law, failure to register these items, among others, is a felony subject to imprisonment exceeding one year. See Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-105, § 29-4006, § 29 4011(1).

The district court held a revocation hearing, where it classified Cole’s failure

to-register violation as a Grade B violation and all others as Grade C. After

calculating an advisory Guidelines range of 4-10 months in the sex-trafficking case and 8-14 months in the false statement case, the district court imposed a 24-month sentence in each, the sentences to run concurrently, and a 10-year term of supervised release.