A military contractor known as 'Fat Leonard' is on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet and fleeing house arrest in San Diego, authorities say.
is on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet and fleeing house arrest in San Diego over the weekend, authorities said.
Leonard Glenn Francis removed his tracker on Sunday, prompting a welfare check, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo said Monday.Officers arrived at Francis' home to find it empty, triggering a high-profile search, Castillo said. The news was first reported by theNeighbors in the area told U.S. Marshals investigating the disappearance that several U-Haul trucks had been in and out of the house all week long, Castillo said.
Francis was arrested in 2013 and pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering $500,000 in bribes to Navy officers, who, in exchange, shared classified information with him, in addition to redirecting military vessels to ports that would be beneficial for his Singapore-based ship servicing company.Prosecutors say Francis and his firm overcharged the U.S. military by more than $35 million for its services.
The former military contractor had been under house arrest since at least 2018 and was due to be sentenced at the end of the month.He could not say where Francis might be, but said officials would share updates as they became available. Devin Burstein, the defense attorney appearing to represent Francis, did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from NBC News.The Associated Press
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