Demetrius Catching, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Allenwood, has been sentenced to an additional 41 months in prison for assaulting a corrections officer. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam stated that Catching was indicted by a grand jury in Scranton in April 2016 following an incident where he punched a corrections officer at FCI Allenwood. The sentencing was postponed as Catching faced federal charges for drug distribution and money laundering in the Eastern District of Kentucky. He is currently serving a total of 148 months for those offenses. The new sentence will run consecutively with his existing sentences from Kentucky.
The investigation into the assault was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Service, while Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. O’Hara prosecuted the case.
At the time of the incident, Catching was serving a 60-month sentence from Kentucky for distributing cocaine base (crack), which has since been completed.