Source: Office of United States Attorneys
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Demetrius Catching, age 34, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Allenwood, and formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to serve an additional 41 months in prison on the charge of assaulting, resisting, and impeding a corrections officer.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Catching was previously indicted by a grand jury in Scranton in April 2016, after an incident at FCI Allenwood in which Catching punched a corrections officer. Sentencing in this matter was delayed while Catching was prosecuted on federal charges for drug distribution and money laundering in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Catching is presently serving sentences from the Eastern District of Kentucky totaling 148 months for those offenses. The sentence imposed by Judge Mariani will run consecutively, or in addition to, the Eastern District of Kentucky sentences.
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Service. Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. O’Hara prosecuted the case.
At the time of the incident at FCI Allenwood, Catching was serving a sentence of 60 months from the Eastern District of Kentucky for distributing cocaine base (crack). That sentence has since expired.
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