Escape from Federal Custody Results in Prison Sentence

A Waterloo man who escaped from federal custody at the Waterloo Residential Reentry Center was sentenced November 1, 2023, to more than two years in federal prison.

Chaston Fox, age 30, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 18, 2023 guilty plea to escape from federal custody.

In a plea agreement, Fox admitted he was sentenced in May of 2020 to serve 47 months’ imprisonment in federal prison for possession of a firearm.  In May 2022, Fox was placed in the Waterloo Residential Reentry Center to complete his federal sentence.  On October 1, 2022, Fox escaped from the facility and remained a fugitive until he was arrested in December of 2022.

Fox was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams.  Fox was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment and must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

Fox 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 Waterloo Police Department. 

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. 

The case file number is 23-CR-02032.

Follow us on Twitter @USAO_NDIA.