Anchorage man arrested on 18 perjury and sex offender registry counts

Ronnie Wieber, 52, of Anchorage is being held at the Anchorage Jail on no bail after investigators charged him with 18 counts tied to the state sex offender registry.

Investigators with Task Force Dawnbreaker contacted Wieber on Aug. 18 as part of a sex offender registry compliance investigation, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said. They determined Wieber was out of compliance and arrested him on nine counts of perjury and nine counts of failure to register as a sex offender in the second degree. The record contains no response from Wieber. The charges are accusations, and Wieber is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Task Force Dawnbreaker is a collaboration between the Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Technical Crimes Unit and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations.

Alaska registrants swear under penalty of perjury that the information on their registration form is true, correct and complete. A false statement is a class B felony. Failure to register in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor. State law allows a defense only when unforeseeable circumstances outside a registrant's control prevented registration and the person contacted the department orally and in writing immediately upon being able to comply.

Trooper dispatches record a three-day Mat-Su Valley compliance operation, Aug. 10 to Aug. 12, which identified 100 registered sex offenders. Teams located 60 and made 17 arrests, 15 for registration violations or perjury.

The department did not announce a court date. The account comes from department dispatches.