Published: 01/12/2008 Sex offender faces jail after allegedly giving phony addresses By Julie Manganis Staff writer
BEVERLY - A level three sex offender who's facing a potential five-year minimum mandatory sentence for allegedly failing to tell police he was working at the Cummings Center last fall is in more trouble after probation officials say he gave them four phony addresses. Antonio Berardi, 29, who says he is homeless, was ordered by a Salem District Court judge last month to give his address to the probation department or face going back to jail. Yesterday, his probation officer reported that the four addresses Berardi had provided were all false. They included an apartment building on Rantoul Street, a rooming house on Dane Street, a private home on Baker Street where no one had ever heard of him and an address on Swan Street that does not exist. In addition, Berardi has failed to show up at the community corrections center in Lynn on several dates and missed drug tests three times this month. Berardi, who has already been charged more than once with failing to register as a sex offender, has also in the past misled probation officers as to where he was working, not telling them he had a job at Beverly's Cummings Center, his probation officer said. Berardi's lawyer, Ed Sargent, said yesterday that Berardi did give correct addresses. He said the apartment on Rantoul Street, where Berardi allegedly spent a night, belongs to a man whose daughter allowed Berardi to stay over, without her father knowing. He said he did not recall the exact street address on Swan Street and inadvertently gave police the wrong one. And the Baker Street address, Berardi said, referred to his brother's home on Baker Street in Worcester. Berardi, clutching pictures of his daughter, pleaded with the judge, saying probation officers simply misunderstood what he told them and that he had missed his appointments at community corrections because he had no money for transportation to Lynn. He went on to accuse his probation officers of "setting me up." Judge Joseph Jennings was not convinced, however, ordering Berardi held without bail until a further hearing later this month. Berardi was convicted of statutory rape in 1999 and served jail time. His classification was increased from level two to level three, the category deemed most likely to reoffend, because of his past failures to register.
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