A Cedar Rapids man who escaped from federal custody at the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2018 was sentenced today to serve 22 months in federal prison.
Alan Ault, age 45, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a Jan. 29, 2019 guilty plea to one count of escape from federal custody and a May 30, 2019 admission that he also violated the terms of his supervised release from a 2004 federal drug and firearm conviction by escaping from custody and committing other violations of his supervised release.
At the guilty plea and during the supervised release revocation hearing, Ault admitted he escaped from the Gerald R. Hinzman Center on March 27, 2018, where he was completing the last months of a twenty-year federal drug sentence. Ault was originally sentenced on Jan. 13, 2005, and was moved to the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Federal Bureau of Prisons custody in September of 2017. The Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force arrested Ault in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 27, 2018.
Ault was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade. Ault was sentenced to serve 14 months’ imprisonment for his supervised release violation and an additional, consecutive term of 8 months’ imprisonment for the new escape charge. He must also serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Ault is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick J. Reinert and investigated by the United States Marshal’s Service and the Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force. Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/. The case file numbers are 18-CR-00111 and 04-CR-0045.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
