Man Pleads Guilty to Escaping Federal Custody in Boston

BOSTON, MA – A federal inmate from Fall River pleaded guilty Monday to escaping federal custody at Boston's Coolidge House Residential Reentry Center.

Jason Barreto, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of escape from federal custody before U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns.

Barreto was previously convicted of distributing oxycondone in a Rhode Island federal court in 2011. He was one of four men sentenced to federal prison for distributing oxycodone in the areas of Tiverton and Fall River.

While serving out a 70-month prison sentence, Baretto was transferred in May 2015 from Kentucky's U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy to Coolidge House, in Boston, where he was to serve the remainder of his sentence.

He was supposed to be released Nov. 1, 2015 but, according to the U.S. District Attorney's Massachusetts office, he walked out of the facility after an unspecified incident on Sept. 17, 2015.

The U.S. Marshals Service located and arrested Barreto on April 8, 2016, at Harrah’s Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 22.

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