‘Killer’ rearrested after error release
A Brooklyn murder suspect who was mistakenly released from Rikers Island on a clerical error following a vile courtroom rant was captured on Friday after more than a month on the lam, law-enforcement sources said.
Christopher Buggs (right), 26, who was awaiting trial in a fatal 2018 shooting, was nabbed just after noon in The Bronx near White Plains Road and East 221st Street, the sources said.
It was not immediately clear if he would face new charges or how cops tracked him down.
Cops planned to bring him back to Rikers, sources said.
Buggs’ accidental release last month came after he cursed out Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Vincent Del Giudice for rejecting his bail application during a February appearance, court records show.
“Suck my d- -k, you f- -king f- - - -t,” Buggs snapped via video.
“[I don’t give a] f- -k about no contempt, n- - - as. Suck my d- -k.”
The judge issued two 30-day contempt-of-court orders for Buggs, then, on March 8, a judge sentenced him to time served on the charges.
Someone saw this and released Buggs, not realizing he should have still been held on the murder charge. He was allowed to board a bus out of the jail complex and enjoy just over five weeks of freedom.
It took 12 hours for correction officials to notify the NYPD of the mistake. Four staffers, including an assistant deputy warden, were suspended without pay as a result.
Just over a week later, a second inmate was accidentally let out of the jail, but he turned himself in the next day when it became clear it was a mistake.
Buggs is accused of murdering Ernest BrownLee, 55, during a dispute outside of a Bedford-Stuyvesant bodega in 2018, cops said.