Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Escaping from Bloomfield Halfway House
Friday, September 11, 2026 - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ERIC STAGGERS, 43, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to escape from custody.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in March 2015, Staggers was sentenced in the Southern District of Alabama to 37 months of imprisonment and 25 years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender. Following his release from prison, Staggers moved to Connecticut and his supervision was transferred to the District of Connecticut. In September 2024, Staggers was sentenced in Hartford federal court to 21 months of imprisonment for violating several conditions of his supervised release.
On August 13, 2025, while Staggers was completing his sentence at the Drapelick Center, a Residential Reentry Center (halfway house) in Bloomfield, Staggers left the facility and claimed that he was headed to his place of employment. Later that morning, Drapelick Center staff learned that Staggers was not scheduled to work that day, contacted him, and directed him to return to the halfway house. Staggers failed to return.
Staggers was located and arrested in New Haven on November 30, 2025. He has been detained since his arrest.
Judge Bolden scheduled sentencing for December 21, at which time Staggers faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years.
This matter has been investigated by U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia E. King.
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut
