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ATWATER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Bay Area antheral has been indicted Thursday aft helium escaped from a Merced County situation for astir 8 years, the United States Department of Justice said.
The DOJ says a national expansive assemblage returned a one-count indictment Thursday against Eric Pree, 55, of San Francisco, charging him with flight from custody.
According to tribunal documents, Pree was convicted of national ligament fraud and aggravated individuality theft charges backmost successful 2012. He was sentenced to 101 months and transferred to service his condemnation astatine the U.S. Penitentiary Atwater successful Merced County.
However, successful 2017, the DOJ says Pree was discovered missing from the facility. He near without support and remained astatine ample until his arrest.
Nearly 8 years later, successful October 2024, the DOJ says investigators arrested Pree successful Walnut Creek. Pree had respective compartment phones, ID cards, debit and recognition cards successful antithetic people's names astatine the clip of this arrest, arsenic good arsenic aggregate driver's licenses and a fake Harvard University Student ID.
The DOJ says Pree is backmost successful national custody serving the remainder of his archetypal condemnation portion besides facing his caller indictments for the escape. If convicted, Pree faces a maximum statutory punishment of 5 years successful situation and a $250,000 fine.
