WARREN, Maine — Multiple agencies were searching for a man from the Belfast area who escaped from a low-security Maine State Prison facility Friday night.
According to a press release, Brian Floyd escaped from the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren at about 10 p.m. Friday night. The Department of Corrections was working with state and local police Saturday in an effort to find him, according to Judy Plummer, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections.
Floyd, 21, is described as about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 165 pounds and Caucasian with blond hair and blue eyes. He started his sentence with the Department of Corrections in June of this year for theft by unauthorized taking and was due to be released on May 22, 2015, with no probation to follow.
Plummer said no further information about the search was available Saturday morning.
The Bolduc Correctional Facility, at 516 Cushing Road in Warren, houses prisoners with three years or less left on their sentences and focuses on reintegrating them back into the community through work-release and community restitution programs.
Didn’t another person escape from this facility not too long ago? Maybe they need to rethink their security a little bit. I realize it’s a lower security place, but maybe it should be just a TAD more secure just the same!
Yeah, I’d say the “open door policy” is no longer working…
If he’s a danger to the public he never should have been sent there. I think we need to have low security facilities as long as the screening and classification process is done right. They cost less to operate and are easier to manage. The important thing to consider is that there is no guarantee that an inmate gets transferred to these facilities when he has less than 3 years to serve. They can keep a troublemaker in maximum security right up to his release date. Somebody else posted the actual sentencing info and I see it included 364 days for an assault charge. I think the corrections system probably looked at the details behind that charge before they assigned him to this facility.
Nowhere does it say he’s a danger to the public.
Exactly and that’s why I said “if”. I don’t think they would assign him to that place if they thought he was a danger. The cops will look for him in the most obvious places and get back to business as usual if they don’t find him right away. Most of these “walk away” escapees turn up soon enough. They get to finish their time in the “real” prison with some more added for the escape charge.
I’d check all nearby middle schools. This kid looks 13. Hopefully someone will put him back on track. He’s young enough to turn it around.
Hay Commissioner, think this might have something to do with lack of staff? I know you are giving the prisoners all the freedom they can stand, but now you also have to protect the public, how you going to do that with no staff, can’t wait till the public finds out what you have done to the state correctional system!
Ponte was going to be LePage’s answer to the “good ole boy” system run by Marty Magnusson. Looks like we have gone from the frying pan into the fire!
So, so true
And the public WILL find out. You can’t leave two guards on the night shift looking after 150+ inmates….I don’t care if they are minimum security or not! If they are no danger at all, let them go, there is no need to pay for them being in jail. I am sure the public will just love that!
GOD, maybe he went back to Kindergarden…he must have stolen the principles lunch. I’m sure he was soooo tired of being the prisoners GF.
Crap. I guess I have to go down back and check my sheds again.
He started his sentence in June of this year. He was due to be released in 3 years.
For theft by unauthorized taking. That’s a sentence of 3 years for a class E conviction (without aggravating factors, which, none are listed). Max sentence on a class E as established is 1 year. Just one. Not three.
Yeah, I’d probably try to break out too. What a sham. Unless the story behind his sentence isn’t a whole lot deeper, this is a massive Justice System fail. Completely.
I have no doubt someone slipped up, here, but who? and, why?
Wrong….You are making an inaccurate assumption about Theft by Unauthorized taking or Transfer. The article did not state what class it was, and the class of theft is dependant on the amount stolen. It can range anywhere from a class E to a Class B crime (a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison)
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec353.html
You really need to check your facts before assuming you are correct and the whole system screwed up basic sentencing procedure.
You really need to read the second line of my second paragraph (where I say WITHOUT AGGRAVATING FACTORS). As in, the straight up charge of Theft by Unauthorized Taking is E, but, there are different levels depending on the theft itself (IE: aggravating factors) This is meant to convey the point that I am in fact aware of the workings of the law. I also suggest later on that the story might be deeper, which again, means that there could be more to it which wasn’t reported, which would make the article (and his sentence) logical.
I was illustrating a point that clearly you missed. You really need to check what people are saying and implying before you go trying to make them look foolish.
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If he was an escaped murderer, I could see the freaking out about danger. He was put in jail for theft. Not burglary or robbery, but theft. You and your family are probably just fine.
Grow a set you cupcake! By the sounds of it you’re more dangerous to yourself than this kid would be.
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Unreal. You’d think they would notify nearby residents not only for the safety of the residents but to have a better chance to capture him. Why communicate when they can continue the status quo?
I doubt that this guy is some how lurking around your house, or anywhere near it to be honest. If there was any threat to those who live nearby it would probably have been within the first 1/2 hour of him leaving……up until he hitched a ride, or stole a car to get out of dodge. Either way unless they have your phone number on speed dial, it would have been too late.
Actually he was in jail for assault as well so maybe he will come smack you around.
Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OR TRANSFER (B)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:2Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):BURGLARY (B)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:1Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OR TRANSFER (C)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:3Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF PROPERTY (C)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:4Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):BURGLARY (C)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:5Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OR TRANSFER (C)Sentence:3 Years 182 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03627Count:6Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):BURGLARY (C)Sentence:1 YearCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-04124Count:1Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OR TRANSFER (C)Sentence:1 YearCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-04124Count:2Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):THEFT BY UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OR TRANSFER (C)Sentence:1 YearCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2011-03518Count:4Sentence Date:6/5/2012Offense (Class):ASSAULT (D)Sentence:364 DaysCourt:PENOBSCOT COUNTY COURTDocket Number:PENCD-CR-2012-01813Count:1Sentence Date:6/5/2012
Are these multiple charges for the same offense
Yes he was sentenced for everyone of those charges on 6/5/12.
Mike S, Were did you get that charges info from?
everyone has access to the charges if you want to pay for them
The time doesn’t fit the crime. What aren’t the prison system saying about his charges??
Hmmmmmmmmmm………. he gets three years for unauthorized taking but TWO men who killed their infants get only six years. No wonder our population is so willing to break the law.
Seems like he got more time than wife beaters, dope heads and CEO of the turnpike.
It would appear that young Mr. Floyd has elected to reintegrate himself back into the community without the assistance of the nice folks at the Bolduc facility. Brilliant, just brilliant.
Isnt this the 12th escaped inmate/felon/insane person from Maine’s Authority? I think something needs to be addressed here and someone should take accountability….
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Someone will. It just won’t be the right person.
I guess that would be up to the commissioner of corrections. He seems to think that they don’t need security… two guards for 150+ inmates is not every going to work…. this past year has been a joke! He is making a mockery of the justice system