Chinese National Xiaoqin Yan Sentenced to 10 Additional Months in Prison for Escaping from FCI Danbury in Connecticut
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut announced that Xiaoqin Yan, 32, a citizen of China, was sentenced on October 28 in Bridgeport by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley to 10 months of additional imprisonment for escaping from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut (FCI Danbury). U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan announced the sentence.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on December 10, 2024, Yan escaped from the Federal Satellite Low facility at FCI Danbury, where she was serving a federal prison sentence imposed in the Middle District of Alabama for arson and possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.
Yan was apprehended on December 10, 2024, and has been detained since her arrest. On April 10, 2026, she pleaded guilty to escape from the custody of the Attorney General.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of the Danbury Police Department and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia E. King.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：位于康涅狄格州 Danbury 的联邦惩教所（FCI Danbury）正门，本案被告正是在该所服刑期间出逃。照片：美国联邦监狱局（Bureau of Prisons）官方图，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The entrance of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, from which the defendant escaped while serving her sentence. Photo: U.S. Bureau of Prisons, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
