Demetrius Catching, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Allenwood, has been sentenced to an additional 41 months in prison. This sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani following charges of assaulting, resisting, and impeding a corrections officer.

United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam reported that Catching was indicted by a grand jury in Scranton in April 2016 after an incident where he punched a corrections officer at FCI Allenwood. The sentencing for this case was postponed as Catching faced federal charges related to drug distribution and money laundering in the Eastern District of Kentucky. He is currently serving sentences totaling 148 months for these offenses. The new sentence will be served consecutively to his existing sentences from Kentucky.

The investigation into the assault on the corrections officer was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Service. 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 the Eastern District of Kentucky for distributing cocaine base (crack), which has since expired.