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Florida Proud Boy And Insurrectionist Faked Drug Overdose To Delay Sentencing. [1]
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Date: 2023-12-27
I’ve written before about Florida Proud Boy and insurrectionist Christopher Worrell. To summarize, Worrell was in jail pending his trial. This was because Worrell assaulted cops with pepper spray during the Jan 6th insurrection. But Worrell claimed he was not receiving proper medical care from his jailers (Worrell claims he suffers from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma). The judge held a couple of the jailers in contempt for this, and Worrell was released to home detention. When Worrell was convicted for his crimes, he did what any upstanding citizen would do before being sentenced: he pulled a runner. Worrell was eventually apprehended again by the FBI, but he was not done with his tricks. Worrell supposedly overdosed on some opiod, and he had to go to the hospital for five days of “live saving treatment.”
Turns out Worrell FAKED his drug overdose.
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to increase the pending prison sentence for a Florida man who fled ahead of his sentencing hearing for felony convictions stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. As Law&Crime previously reported, Christopher Worrell went missing in August days before he was supposed to report to court in Washington, D.C., for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, had convicted Worrell in May of seven felonies, including obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, civil disorder, and assaulting officers using a dangerous weapon. Worrell was finally caught weeks later, in late September — and according to a memo filed by federal prosecutors on Tuesday, he pretended to overdose on drugs in an attempt to further delay facing his fate. “He apparently had no intention of ever turning himself in,” the DOJ’s supplemental sentencing memorandum says. “Worrell was recaptured, however, when he attempted to covertly return to his residence. Worrell then faked a drug overdose prior to his arrest, and maintained that lie during a five-day hospital stay, wasting the time and money of both medical staff and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, which provided deputies to watch Worrell 24/7 in a non-secure hospital location and was left to foot the bill for Worrell’s unnecessary medical care.”
How do they know this? Because they got a hold of Worrell’s email to a friend simply known as B.S.
“The entire time, Worrell knew he was fine,” prosecutors wrote. Worrell himself appeared to acknowledge as much. Prosecutors attached an email exchange between Worrell and someone identified only as “B.S.” in which Worrell seems to acknowledge that the “overdose” wasn’t real. “I need to know the truth bro did you try to kill your self I hope you didn’t I need the truth,” wrote B.S. in an email. “I did not!!” Worrell replied moments later. “Will explain more when we talk. I already told you some of it[.]” “OK I believe you,” B.S. wrote back. “I have never and will never lie to you,” Worrell insisted in his reply. “It was a stupid delay tactic. Will tell you more when we talk.
And because this mofo lied about the drug overdose, the prosecutors did some more digging. They now have evidence that Worrell may not have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after all.
“Worrell has now admitted faking a drug overdose for strategic reasons,” the memo says. “And as the government has documented at length elsewhere, some of Worrell’s claims as to his medical treatment or conditions have been unsubstantiated by, or directly refuted by, medical records from at least a half-dozen different medical providers.” Prosecutors remind Lamberth that Worrell “repeatedly lied under oath” at trial, and provided what the judge called “the most ridiculous explanation” the judge “had ever heard in [its] life” in an attempt to excuse his 2022 bond violation. “At this point, Worrell’s claims of past medical mistreatment while in custody should be viewed as suspect,” prosecutors concluded.
Emphasis is mine.
The court bent over backwards for Worrell, and he played them like a guitar. The prosecutors were going to give Worrell a break and recommend the shortest sentence for him.
Prosecutors had asked Lamberth to sentence Worrell to 14 years in prison. His defense attorney argued for a lighter sentence of 30 months in home detention, citing a health condition that they said must be closely monitored.
But now, the government is asking for the maximum of 20 years. I’m sure the defense will still argue the lie to get home detention. Hopefully, the dumbass judge who let Worrell get away with all this shit has had enough humiliation and will actually treat Worrell like the criminal he is, instead of a poor suffering white man who needs special favors.
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