Drug dealer is convicted of fleeing Bloomfield Halfway House: Feds

HARTFORD, CT – A convicted drug dealer who escaped from a Bloomfield halfway house was sentenced Monday to four additional months in prison.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, said Hector Santiago, 29, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to four months in prison for escaping from the halfway house last year.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on November 18, 2019, Santiago was sentenced in Hartford federal court to 69 months in prison and four years of supervised release for a narcotics trafficking offense.

On June 23, 2023, he was transferred from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, to the Drapelick Center, a residential reentry center in Bloomfield, to complete his custodial sentence.

On September 27, 2023, Santiago left the Drapelick Center and never returned, Avery said.

He was located and charged in Hartford on February 9.

On March 11, Santiago confessed to escaping the custody of the Attorney General.

Santiago’s four-month sentence is retroactive to May 13 and he will be on supervised release for four years when he is released from prison.

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