Halfway house escape may mean 5 more years

BLOOMFIELD — A man who was serving time in a Bloomfield halfway house pleaded guilty to escaping, according to federal authorities.

Charles Harrison, 34, was sentenced in 2012 in the Northern District of New York to 10 years in prison for a narcotics trafficking offense. In March 2021 he was transferred to the Drapelick Center, a residential reentry center, or halfway house, in Bloomfield to “complete his custodial sentence,” federal authorities said in a statement.

Harrison left the facility on a day pass Sept. 7, 2021, and did not return. He was found and arrested in New York on March 29 and has been in custody since then, the statement said,

Harrison is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford on Jan. 6 and could face up to five more years in prison, the statement said.

— Staff report