Shawn Christy, the Schuylkill County man arrested last month in Ohio on federal charges he threatened public officials, has not yet been returned to Pennsylvania, his father said Tuesday.
U.S. marshals in Ohio said Friday they expected to bring him to the Keystone State within four days.
“We have no clue where he is,” his father, Craig Christy of McAdoo, said about 9 p.m. Tuesday. “We just follow the BOP [U.S. Bureau of Prisons online] locator. That shows he’s still in Oklahoma.”
Shawn Christy, 26, appears to have been at the Federal Transfer Center, a prison in Oklahoma City, since soon after he was captured Sept. 21 near Mansfield, Ohio, following a three-month manhunt by federal, state, county and local officers.
Christy is accused of threatening to shoot President Trump and other public officials, and of illegal possession of the .380 handgun officials said he had when he was taken into custody.
He also faces charges of assaulting the mayor of McAdoo on March 15, 2017, and various other charges related to the thefts of vehicles and guns as he fled this summer through six states.
Federal officials made no announcement Tuesday and could not be reached for comment Tuesday night on Christy’s whereabouts.
Officials have said Christy probably will face the federal charges in the federal court in Scranton. During the court process, he could be housed in Lackawanna County Jail, also in Scranton.
Christy’s father said if Shawn is not in Pennsylvania by early Wednesday, there’s a good chance he’ll fly in on Thursday, which, he said, is when many federal prison transfers are made.
It doesn’t take long to get a federal prisoner from the Oklahama prison to an airplane at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City, he noted.
“The prison is right there in the airport,” he said.
In fact, the Federal Transfer Center, which has cells enough for about 1,500 inmates, does sit within the airport grounds, and a plane often pulls up to its front entrance.
Craig Christy said he has experience with the prison. In 2011, he and his son were housed there briefly on their way to Alaska to face charges of harassing the lawyers of former governor Sarah Palin.
