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04-24-2004, 08:46 PM
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11381581&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
Big Mac attack costs federal inmate an additional 37 months
BY DAVID SINGLETON / STAFF WRITER 04/24/2004
An inmate who tried to slip out of a federal prison camp to have dinner with his girlfriend at McDonald's will have plenty of time to contemplate the cost of his Big Mac attack.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced Sampson Sanders, 40, to an additional 37 months in prison for his attempted escape from the Federal Correctional Institution at Schuylkill on March 16, 2003.
"At the time, it was a stupid move I made," Mr. Sanders told U.S. District Senior Judge William J. Nealon.
"Were you really going for a Big Mac?" the judge asked.
Mr. Sanders nodded.
"You must have a real desire for McDonald's. They could make an ad about it," Judge Nealon said.
Mr. Sanders, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has since been transferred to the medium-security federal prison at Allenwood. He is in the 95th month of a 151-month sentence on drug-related charges. Friday's sentence pushed his release date back to November 2011.
According to prosecutors, Mr. Sanders was stopped as he tried to leave the grounds of the prison camp near Minersville in a vehicle driven by his girlfriend. He told prison officials he intended to return after he and his girlfriend had eaten at McDonald's.
Attorney Melinda Ghilardi, the first assistant federal public defender who represented Mr. Sanders, pointed out that while Mr. Sanders was outside the camp's perimeter, he never left U.S. Bureau of Prisons property.
She told Judge Nealon a 37-month sentence was adequate punishment for the "very brief period of time" when Mr. Sanders was not where he should have been.
The escape charge carried a potential sentence of five years in prison.
(found on FPPP)
Big Mac attack costs federal inmate an additional 37 months
BY DAVID SINGLETON / STAFF WRITER 04/24/2004
An inmate who tried to slip out of a federal prison camp to have dinner with his girlfriend at McDonald's will have plenty of time to contemplate the cost of his Big Mac attack.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced Sampson Sanders, 40, to an additional 37 months in prison for his attempted escape from the Federal Correctional Institution at Schuylkill on March 16, 2003.
"At the time, it was a stupid move I made," Mr. Sanders told U.S. District Senior Judge William J. Nealon.
"Were you really going for a Big Mac?" the judge asked.
Mr. Sanders nodded.
"You must have a real desire for McDonald's. They could make an ad about it," Judge Nealon said.
Mr. Sanders, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has since been transferred to the medium-security federal prison at Allenwood. He is in the 95th month of a 151-month sentence on drug-related charges. Friday's sentence pushed his release date back to November 2011.
According to prosecutors, Mr. Sanders was stopped as he tried to leave the grounds of the prison camp near Minersville in a vehicle driven by his girlfriend. He told prison officials he intended to return after he and his girlfriend had eaten at McDonald's.
Attorney Melinda Ghilardi, the first assistant federal public defender who represented Mr. Sanders, pointed out that while Mr. Sanders was outside the camp's perimeter, he never left U.S. Bureau of Prisons property.
She told Judge Nealon a 37-month sentence was adequate punishment for the "very brief period of time" when Mr. Sanders was not where he should have been.
The escape charge carried a potential sentence of five years in prison.
(found on FPPP)