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Defendant Sentenced to 15 Months for Escape from Custody
Freddie Curtis, 31, of Southeast Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison for escaping from the Hope Village Halfway House, located in Southeast, Washington, D.C.
The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Lamont Ruffin, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia (USMS), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Curtis pled guilty on April 24, 2019, before the Honorable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of escape from custody. Judge Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Curtis to 15 months of prison to be followed by one year of supervised release.
Curtis was previously convicted of one count of Felony Bail Reform Act and one count of attempted distribution of cocaine, and was sentenced by a D.C. Superior Court judge to 26 months of prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
As part of the defendant’s sentence, he was permitted to complete the remainder of his sentence at Hope Village Halfway House. However, on January 15, 2019, Curtis signed out of the Hope Village facility, and although he was supposed to return later that day, he never returned.
Curtis was arrested weeks later by MPD on new criminal charges. In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Liu, Marshal Ruffin, and Chief Newsham commended the work of those who investigated the case.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the USMS have been working to prosecute felony offenders who escape from halfway houses, and have obtained dozens of felony convictions of defendants who either failed to report to or absconded from the Hope Village Halfway House.
Key Facts
- State: Washington DC
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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