(KNZA)--A Hiawatha man convicted of failing to register as a sex offender has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill said 39-year-old Randel McFeeters Jr. was handed a 40-month prison sentence Monday in Brown County District Court.

McFeeters' attorney argued for probation and a departure from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines.

Hill opposed the defendant- motion and asked that McFeeters be ordered to serve his sentence in prison. He pointed to McFeeters' prior criminal history and the fact that he was subject to a special rule under the sentencing guidelines wherein a presumptive prison sentence applied due to factors that existed in his case.

After hearing arguments, District Judge Laura Johnson-McNish denied the defendant- motion and ordered McFeeters to serve his prison sentence.

McFeeters was immediately remanded to the Brown County Jail to be delivered to state prison.

He was subject to lifetime registration under the Kansas Offender Registration Act due to a 2001 conviction in Brown County District Court for sex offenses committed against a 14-year-old child in Hiawatha, for which he received a prison sentence in 2001.

Hill prosecuted both the 2001 sex offense and the 2025 Failure to Register case on behalf of the State of Kansas