Albert Lea sex offender sentenced to 90 days in jail

Published 9:10 am Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Dodge County District Court Judge Joseph F. Wieners last week sentenced Jabar Pedro Morarend to 90 days in jail for interfering with a 911 call in March after he broke into a Hayfield home.

Morarend, 38, a high-risk sex offender living in Albert Lea, also will be on probation for two years. If he violates the probation, he will be required to serve one year in the Steele County jail, according to court documents.

Jabar Morarend

Court records state he will get credit on his 90-day sentence for 46 days he’s already spent in jail.

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According to court documents, Morarend broke down the door of his ex-girlfriend’s home on March 20, demanding to know where her boyfriend was and then threatened to kill him.

Reports state Morarend went up the stairs, pushing the former girlfriend out of the way and up against the wall. The woman tried to prevent Morarend from getting to her boyfriend and instructed her son to get her phone and call 911.

Morarend then punched the boyfriend across the left cheek and then took the phone from the boy and pushed him into a wooden pillar at the bottom of the stairs before leaving the house, court documents state.

Morarend later turned himself into deputies with the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office.

He pleaded guilty in October to the interference charge, a gross misdemeanor, along with three other counts of fifth-degree assault as part of a plea agreement in the case. A fifth charge, of first-degree burglary, was dismissed.

No sentence was pronounced for the three counts of assault.

Morarend’s sentence also includes the following conditions:

Not using alcohol or controlled substances.

Not possessing alcohol, drugs or mood-altering chemicals.

Random testing.

Not entering bars or liquor stores.

Completing a chemical assessment and then following the recommendations of that evaluation.

Remaining law-abiding.

Submitting to random searches.

Having no contact with the victims.

Having no threats of violence.

Completing a psychological evaluation.

Paying involved costs.

In addition, he is required to complete 50 hours of community service.

Morarend was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual contact out of Rice County in 1998, after he raped an adult woman, who was his neighbor. He did so using force, threats and a knife to gain compliance and entered her home without permission.

In the past, he has also been charged with car break-ins and criminal damage to property.