Proud Boy Faked Overdose to Delay Jan. 6 Sentencing, Prosecutors Say
A Proud Boy convicted over his role in the Capitol riots faked a drug overdose in an attempt to delay his sentencing, the Department of Justice revealed Tuesday in a filing requesting a harsher sentence and increased fine be imposed on the Florida man.
Christopher Worrell, 52, disappeared from house arrest, cutting off his ankle monitor and going on the lam days before he was supposed to be sentenced on seven criminal charges in mid-August. “He apparently had no intention of ever turning himself in,” prosecutors wrote Tuesday in a sentencing memorandum.
Six weeks later, after a multistate search that had federal agents running down leads from New York to California, the FBI reported his recapture, saying he was found “unconscious” after he tried to “covertly return” to his home.