Lansford man fails to comply with Megan’s Law requirements

A Lansford man will spend up to three years in state prison for failing to comply with Megan’s Law requirements.

Christopher J. Vogel, 35, admitted to Schuylkill County President Judge William E. Baldwin that he did not provide a photograph or confirm his address to authorities.

Baldwin sentenced Vogel to 18 to 36 months.

He was charged by Coaldale police on Dec. 1, 2017.

This is the second time Vogel has failed to comply with Megan’s Law sanctions.

In December 2015, Vogel, then of Minersville, was sentenced in Carbon County Court to 10 to one day less 24 months in prison. In that instance, he was charged by Lansford police.

Vogel in April 2013 pleaded guilty in Carbon County court to one count of indecent assault for an incident that occurred on Jan. 24, 2013, at the Lansford Court complex in Summit Hill.

In exchange for the plea, the district attorney’s office dropped charges of rape, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and harassment.

At the time, Summit Hill Chief of Police Joseph Fittos Jr., said that Vogel sexually assaulted a female who had been asleep in her bed. The female “told him to get off of her and she tried to fight him off, but she could not,” police said.

Afterward, Vogel shoved the victim “into a cabinet, grabbed her by the neck, and slapped her across the face” before fleeing.