Crime & Safety
Man Who Escaped Custody in Manchester Pleads Guilty
A Vermont man pleaded guilty to escaping custody in Manchester in December of last year.
CONCORD, N.H. - A Vermont man pleaded guilty to escaping custody in Manchester in December of last year.
According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, William James Dunn, Jr., 35, previously of Burlington, Vermont, pleaded guilty to escaping from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.
Dunn has been in federal custody since a felony conviction in 2012 in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont for narcotics distribution.
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In September of 2017, he was transferred from a Bureau of Prisons facility to the Hampshire House in Manchester, New Hampshire in order to start his pre-release programming.
On Dec. 23, 2017, he received a nine-hour furlough to attend a family funeral in Burlington, Vermont. Dunn did not return within the prescribed nine hours and his whereabouts were unknown until he turned himself in to the U.S. Marshals in Burlington, Vermont on the morning of Dec. 27, 2017.
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He is scheduled to be sentenced on August 30.
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