Inmate At Federal Correctional Institute Allenwood Sentenced For Assaulting Correction Officer
Sunday, December 22, 2024, 10:45 A.M. ET. 1 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
SCRANTON, PA.- On Thursday, December 19, 2024, Demetrius Catching, 34, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Allenwood and formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to an additional 41 months in federal prison for his conviction for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Corrections Officer.
According to U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam and documents filed with the court, Catching was previously indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in April 2016, following an incident at FCI Allenwood in which Catching punched a federal corrections officer.
The sentencing in this case was delayed while Catching was prosecuted on federal charges for narcotics distribution and money laundering in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Catching is currently serving sentences out of the Eastern District of Kentucky, totaling 148 months for the narcotics and money laundering offenses.
In handing down the sentence on Thursday, Judge Mariani ordered the additional 41 months to be served consecutively to the Eastern District of Kentucky federal prison sentence.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, at the time of the assault at FCI Allenwood, Catching was serving a sentence of 60 months from the Eastern District of Kentucky for a conviction of Distribution of Crack Cocaine.
