Portales man gets 87 months in prison

ALBUQUERQUE — A Portales man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to serve an 87-month prison sentence for failing to update his sex offender registration.

Erich Riker, 44, was convicted on three separate charges between 1995 and 2006 in Minnesota under the name Jamie Lee Wood.

According to a criminal complaint filed In the United States District Court in Roswell:

• Riker moved to Oregon in 2006, and failed to update sex offender registration. He was arrested in Eugene, Oregon, 10 years later, and sentenced in 2017 to a supervised release term of five years. An arrest warrant was general against Riker in 2018 for failing to report or provide an address of residence to his probation officer.

• Riker was arrested in Portales in November 2019 by the New Mexico State Police. The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed there was no record of Riker registering as a sex offender in the county.