Ramius Hardiman, Escape from Federal Custody, Iowa 2019

Defendant Sentenced for Escape from Federal Custody

Ramius Hardiman, a 26-year-old from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been sentenced to additional time in federal prison for escaping from the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids.

On June 11, 2019, Hardiman pleaded guilty to escape from federal custody. As part of the plea agreement, Hardiman admitted that he left the facility on November 15, 2018, claiming he was going to work and never returned. He was found and arrested in North Liberty, Iowa, on January 9, 2019.

Hardiman was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. He was sentenced to serve an additional eight months' imprisonment, which must be served after he finishes serving a fourteen-month term of imprisonment imposed for violating his supervised release. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Reinert and was investigated by United States Marshals Service and the Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force, with the assistance of the North Liberty Police Department.

Ramius Hardiman, Age: 26, Defendant: Felon in Possession of a Firearm, City and State: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exact Date: June 11, 2019, Sentence: 8 months imprisonment, plus 14 months imprisonment, plus 3 years supervised release.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR-19-00050.

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Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/escaping-halfway-house-leads-additional-federal-prison-time