Aleania Clendineng, Escape from Custody, Iowa 2020

Aleania Clendineng, 35, Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Arrive at Halfway House

A woman who escaped from federal custody has been sentenced to additional prison time in the Northern District of Iowa. Aleania Clendineng, 35, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced to four months and 14 days in federal prison on April 15, 2020.

Clendineng pleaded guilty to one count of escape from custody on February 13, 2020. She admitted to intentionally failing to arrive at a residential reentry center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September 3, 2019.

Clendineng was initially sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment in 2015 for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. She was ordered to report to the residential reentry center after being released from a federal prison in Alabama. However, she never showed up at the center and was later arrested in Davenport, Iowa, a month later.

Clendineng was sentenced by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. She must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after completing her prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Clendineng is currently being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until she can be transported to a federal prison. The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Dillan Edwards and investigated by the United States Marshals Service.

The case file number is 19-CR-111 and can be accessed at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

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