A New York mob hitman will spend an additional three years behind bars after being arrested a week after he fled a local half-way house.
Dominic Taddeo, Jr. was sentenced to spend three years in federal prison for his escape from a half-way house in March. Taddeo pled guilty to the escape on May 17 and was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton.
According to court records, on February 15, 2022, Taddeo was transferred from the Coleman Correctional Institution to a half-way house at 6303 County Road 500 in Wildwood, near The Villages, in order to complete his term of incarceration for federal convictions out of the Western District of New York. The halfway house is operated by Residential Reentry Management (RRM) of Orlando.
Taddeo, who is 65 years old, was supposed to spend a year at the half-way house before his projected release date on February 2023.
On March 28, 2022, Taddeo was granted a community pass to leave the half-way house for a medical appointment. He never returned to the half-way house after the appointment.
On April 4, 2022, Taddeo was found in Hialeah, Florida, nearly three hundred miles from the halfway house he fled. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of over $5,000 in cash and the driver’s license of a deceased individual.
Taddeo served as a hitman for a Rochester crime family. He spent more than thirty years in prison after pleading guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that tied him to the murders of three individuals, attempted murder of two more individuals, and conspiracy to murder a fifth person.
Taddeo will serve the three years consecutively with his remaining term of imprisonment from other federal convictions.