| Man Escaping
Mental Hospital After Threat at ABC Is
Presented In SDNY and Returned to DC
By Matthew
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SDNY EXCLUSIVE,
August 18 – A man who escaped
from Saint Elizabeth's
Hospital in Washington DC was
arrested and presented in
Federal court in Manhattan on
August 18. Inner City Press
was there.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Barbara C.
Moses was
presiding.
The escapee's name was David
John Mullin, who in 1983 took
a hostage at ABC News in DC
and demanded to see the "top
reporter" and go on the air
for the nightly newscast.
Instead he was
arrested. This gave rise
to August 30, 1983 headlines
like "Gunman Enters ABC Studios,"
here.
Nearly thirty
nine years later on June 3,
2022 a warrant was issued for
his arrest for escaping from
St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
which opened in 1855 under the
name Government Hospital for
the Insane, the first
federally operated psychiatric
hospital in the US.
On August
18, Mullin was apprehended
near 251 West 80th Street on
Manhattan's Upper West Side,
with prescription medication
bottles in his name.
The request
to Judge Moses was to "Return
Acquitee to Saint Elizabeth's
Hospital; Do Not Bring to
Court or DC Jail."
Judge Moses
obliged, and the US Marshals -
one of whom was summoned into
the Magistrate Judge's robing
room behind the courtroom -
under took the return of
Mullins to St. Elizabeth's
Hospital.
The SDNY
case is US v. Mullin,
22-mj-6805 (Moses).
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