A former Beantown resident found herself in hot water after admitting to ducking out on the feds, pleading guilty to not showing up to start her time behind bars. Yris Sanchez, a 54-year-old ex-Bostonian, was charged with failure to surrender following her no-show for a 15-month stretch in federal prison on passport misuse charges, according to the Justice Department.
Sanchez, who was initially granted pandemic-related leave to self-report to prison, never made it to the slammer come June 2021—now she's facing the music with Judge Denise J. Casper setting a sentencing date for April 11, 2024. Despite the leniency once shown, granting her multiple extensions, she seemingly took it for granted and decided going on the lam was a better option, leading the court to forfeit her appearance bond totaling a whopping $47,500 in July.
Her failure to turn herself in to the Bureau of Prisons, an act that came with a hefty price tag, could now tack on an additional five-year prison term alongside up to three years of supervised release and a fine that could balloon up to $250k, on top of the jailhouse tab she's already racked up. Notably, these consequences aren't abstract figures but concrete numbers echoed by federal law, as explained by the announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy and top law enforcement officials.
Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service Matthew O’Brien and U.S. Marshal Brian Kyes, keeping the heat on those who skip out on federal sentences, made it clear that any sentence Sanchez receives for her run from justice will sit consecutive to her current term; she will not be able to simply slip back into the shadows from which she emerged. Assistant U.S. Attorney William F. Abely, who is spearheading the prosecution efforts, is in charge of seeing that justice is served.
