Shawn D. Brookins was serving a 10-year stint for a firearms charge handed down from a federal judge in West Virginia. He was a felon in possession of a firearm that had been stolen in Ohio.
Brookins was arrested in 2019 for having a homemade shiv on him. He was previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 2009 for a 2008 murder, and was arrested again in 2013 after assaulting two women (what a guy, eh?).
Earlier this year, he was transferred from the FCI McDowell prison to an Ohio sheriff's department for a writ of habeas corpus to appear in court in Jefferson County. Apparently, that case went pretty well for him because when it was over, Jefferson County deupties uncuffed him and sent him on his way.
Needless to say, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was none too happy about not getting their prisoner back.
Now, they're charging Shawn D. Brookins for escaping from prison.
U.S. Marshal John P. Barco said,
Brookins was present for his sentencing and fully aware of the 120-month sentence he was ordered to serve at the Bureau of Prisons.
And since he did not return to the prison, he knowingly escaped.
I guess that's somewhat true, but it's an odd way of phrasing it. Is it really "escaping" when the authorities say you're free to go? Does that make this Ohio sheriff's department accomplices in his escape, or were they just setting him up?
I would call it entrapment, except Brookins isn't trapped.
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