{"id":129917,"date":"2026-03-05T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:12","slug":"valencia-man-charged-with-failing-to-update-megans-law-registration-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129917\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia man charged with failing to update Megan\u2019s Law registration \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772675472_129_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"db21eb61-f1f0-509a-92b1-d9f81521192a\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A Valencia man registered under Megan\u2019s Law faces felony charges after failing to report a new address or place of employment to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Richard Kratsas, 63, was registered on the Megan\u2019s Law website due to a 2006 conviction of lascivious battery of a minor in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He was charged March 2 with two felony counts each of failing to register with state police and failing to verify his address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police said they went to his registered address and spoke to a woman who said she had not heard from Kratsas since Dec. 28. Kratsas also has an arrest warrant for simple assault regarding a domestic disturbance that happened that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police also spoke to his last registered employer and a temp agency he worked with, but neither had heard from him since December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Kratsas last updated his registration on Nov. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">His preliminary hearing has yet to be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Valencia man registered under Megan\u2019s Law faces felony charges after failing to report a new address or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,73,75,74,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-129917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}