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Ryan Babauta arrested for allegedly not complying with supervision conditions
U.S. Marshals arrested last week Ryan T. Babauta, an ex-convict on federal probation who allegedly didn’t comply with his supervision conditions again.
Babauta was served with an arrest warrant on Wednesday. His initial hearing was on Friday afternoon before U.S. District Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather L. Kennedy.
The U.S. Probation sought anew to have Babauta’s supervised release revoked after he submitted a diluted sample during a random drug test on July 14, 2014.
U.S. probation officer Gregory Arriola informed the court that Babauta also failed to appear for counseling sessions on July 29, Aug. 2, Aug. 5, Aug. 6, and Aug. 7, 2014.
He said the defendant did not appear for random drug testing on Aug. 3, 2014.
Babauta also allegedly failed to follow the instructions by not submitting a monthly supervision report within the first week of August 2014 and not reporting to the U.S. Probation Office as directed.
Last January, the federal court revoked Babauta’s supervised release and slapped him with a six-month prison term for using illegal drugs and violating other terms of his probation.
The federal court also ordered that after completing his prison term, Babauta would be placed on supervised release for 54 months.
Babauta was one of seven prisoners who staged a 14-hour hostage drama at the Department of Corrections in Susupe in March 2009. At the time, he was serving a prison term for involuntary manslaughter over the killing of a Bangladeshi national in Chalan Kanoa.
In August 1999, the federal court slapped Babauta with a 180-month prison sentence and five years of supervised release, for hostage taking and felon in possession of a firearm.
