A man who escaped from the Waterloo Residential Correctional Facility and later failed to appear in federal court pursuant to a subpoena was sentenced on March 22, 2022, to more than three years in federal prison.
Eugene Davis, age 43, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a September 28, 2021 guilty plea to an April 23, 2021 escape from federal custody at the Residential Correctional Center in Waterloo and for contempt of court by failing to appear in federal court on April 26, 2021, pursuant to a trial subpoena. Davis also admitted he violated terms of his supervised released for a 2009 federal firearm offense, and the terms of his federal probation imposed for illegally having a cellular telephone while in a federal prison in 2019.
In a plea agreement, Davis admitted that he was in the Waterloo Residential Correctional Center in Waterloo, Iowa, on April 23, 2021, as a condition of his term of supervised release in a 2009 federal firearm case. On April 23, 2021, Davis left the facility to go to work and never returned. Davis was later arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prior to Davis’s escape, he was served with a subpoena that required him to appear in federal court in Cedar Rapids on April 26, 2021. Davis never appeared in court as required.
Davis was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. For the new crimes and his violations of supervision, Davis was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment, and he must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Davis is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick J. Reinert and was investigated by the United States Marshal’s Service. Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file numbers are CR-21-0041 (contempt of court), CR-21-2042 (escape), CR-09-0052 (possession of a firearm by a felon), and CR-21-0003 (possession of a cellular phone in a federal prison).
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