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| Inmate Guilty of Escape During Unescorted Transfer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/14/2003 |
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A federal inmate allowed to take an unescorted commercial airline flight during a transfer from California to Colorado pleaded guilty to escape for failing to show up at his destination. David Wayne Leyden, 39, also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm. He faces up to two years in prison in addition to his original 46-month sentence for fraud, said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney. Leyden vanished Oct. 2 when he was to be transferred from a federal prison camp in Lompoc, Calif., to one in Florence, Colo. He was taken to an airport, handed a commercial airline ticked paid for by the government and sent on his way. He had 48 hours to report to Florence to continue serving his sentence. He didn't. Leyden was re-arrested in April. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has operated the honor system for certain inmates called 'unescorted transfers' using planes, buses and other types of commercial transportation for years, spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said. 'It's just more efficient for the government,' she said. |
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