Press Releases
JACKSON MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ESCAPE
March 27, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dunn Lampton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, announced
that Marlon Billups, of Jackson, Mississippi, pled guilty Wednesday to a charge of escaping from
federal custody. Billups admitted that on August 10, 2006, he left the residential reentry center
known as Bannum Place, in Jackson, Mississippi, and did not return. Billups was completing a 30
month sentence in federal prison for bank larceny and post office burglary. He had entered Bannum
Place to transition back into the community. Billups was due to be released on October 22, 2006,
before escaping custody.
This case was investigated by the United States Marshal Service, Gulf Coast Regional
Fugitive Task Force, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Abdalla. Marlon Billups will
be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III, on June 13, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. The
maximum penalty for this offense is five years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine.
