Wallingford Man Receives More Prison Time After Escaping: Feds

WALLINGFORD, CT — A Wallingford man has been sentenced to an additional year in prison for escaping from a halfway house, officials announced Wednesday. Timothy Estridge, 39, was originally sentenced last April to two years in prison distributing drugs that were used in the overdose death of a 38-year-old man in late 2017 in Wallingford.

Estridge was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for escaping from a Hartford halfway house, U.S. States Attorney for Connecticut John H. Durham announced. He was sentenced via videoconference pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

On April 5, 2019, Estridge was sentenced in Hartford federal court to 24 months in prison for illegally distributing amphetamines

“An investigation revealed that, on December 1, 2017, Estridge filled a prescription for Adderall, which contains amphetamine, and subsequently distributed the pills to an individual in Wallingford who died of a drug overdose approximately two weeks later,” officials wrote in a news release. “The State of Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner determined the victim’s cause of death to be intoxication of a combination of heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, alprazolam, amphetamine, and ethanol.”

Estridge was transferred on Oct. 30, 2019 to Watkinson House, a halfway house in Hartford, to complete his prison term, according to officials. On Nov. 26, 2019, after Estridge admitted “using fentanyl and facility staff found evidence of intravenous drug use in his room,” he left the facility without permission and did not return, the news release states.

Estridge turned himself into the U.S. Marshals Service on Dec. 5, 2019. Before his escape, Estridge was estimated to be released from custody on Dec. 8, 2019, officials said. He has been detained since Dec. 5, 2019 and pleaded guilty in February to escape from custody.