Post by Branchville on Feb 27, 2010 16:11:20 GMT -5
Two of three BCF escapees sentenced
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Two of the three men who escaped from Branchville Correctional Facility last spring have been sentenced for crimes they committed while fleeing from authorities.
Jerry Sargent was sentenced recently in federal court for the weapons violations that occurred during the escape. He was sentenced in the United States Eastern District Court in Frankfort, Ky., to a term of 327 months, a sentence that will run consecutive to all other sentences he receives.
That means Sargent will spend the next 23 years in a federal penitentiary. At the end of that term he will be remanded to the state of Indiana to finish the sentence he had been serving and any additional sentences.
Bobby Cockerell was sentenced to 120 months earlier and has begun serving that 8.5-year federal time. Christopher Marshall is scheduled to be sentenced in late March under the same charges in federal courts.
He also will be remanded back to Indiana at the end of his federal time to finish his obligations here.
Sargent, 59, Cockerell, 31, and Marshall, 49, escaped March 20 after assaulting a maintenance worker and cutting through two fences.
The trio eluded a manhunt, stole a vehicle near St. Croix and traveled to Kentucky, where they allegedly beat three brothers near Sanders, Ky.
The escapees fled westward into Nebraska, before they were caught in the city of Alliance, located in northwest corner of the state.
The escapes followed the 2008 flight of two other men and raised attention from neighbors and others in the community that violent offenders serving long sentences were housed at the facility.
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Two of the three men who escaped from Branchville Correctional Facility last spring have been sentenced for crimes they committed while fleeing from authorities.
Jerry Sargent was sentenced recently in federal court for the weapons violations that occurred during the escape. He was sentenced in the United States Eastern District Court in Frankfort, Ky., to a term of 327 months, a sentence that will run consecutive to all other sentences he receives.
That means Sargent will spend the next 23 years in a federal penitentiary. At the end of that term he will be remanded to the state of Indiana to finish the sentence he had been serving and any additional sentences.
Bobby Cockerell was sentenced to 120 months earlier and has begun serving that 8.5-year federal time. Christopher Marshall is scheduled to be sentenced in late March under the same charges in federal courts.
He also will be remanded back to Indiana at the end of his federal time to finish his obligations here.
Sargent, 59, Cockerell, 31, and Marshall, 49, escaped March 20 after assaulting a maintenance worker and cutting through two fences.
The trio eluded a manhunt, stole a vehicle near St. Croix and traveled to Kentucky, where they allegedly beat three brothers near Sanders, Ky.
The escapees fled westward into Nebraska, before they were caught in the city of Alliance, located in northwest corner of the state.
The escapes followed the 2008 flight of two other men and raised attention from neighbors and others in the community that violent offenders serving long sentences were housed at the facility.