Federal Inmate Sentenced To 45 Months’ Imprisonment For Assault With A Dangerous Weapon

SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard Anthony Trent, age 44, a federal prison inmate, was sentenced on July 20, 2023, by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 45 months’ imprisonment for the offense of assault with a dangerous weapon. 

According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, on May 17, 2022, while an inmate at United States Penitentiary, Canaan (USP Canaan), in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, Trent assaulted another inmate with a dangerous weapon, namely, a 7-inch grey metal weapon or “shank,” by repeatedly stabbing down on the victim-inmate, who was seated in a prison common area. 

Judge Mannion also ordered Trent’s 45-month sentence run consecutively to the federal sentence that Trent was already serving at the time of the assault.  

The matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffery St John.

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