MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A man who helped a fellow inmate scale a fence to escape from a Rugby jail last summer has been sentenced in federal court.
Christopher Ratteray pleaded guilty in January to assisting escape from the Heart of America Correctional and Treatment Center.
Authorities say Ratteray gave Wesley Brown III a jacket to protect Brown from razor wire on the jail fence. Brown was apprehended within three hours.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on Friday sentenced Ratteray to serve one year in prison.
Brown has pleaded guilty to possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and one count of escape from custody. A sentencing date has not been set.
Brown faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
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