Admitted serial rapist and former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house in Baltimore.Court documents show he was taken from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to “community confinement” overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore. Being sent to a halfway house program is an indication of nearing the completion of a sentence. Documents show he is set to be released in 2028.Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest in 2015 and 2016 in local courts in Louisiana, California, Nevada and Arizona to charges that he had drugged and raped — or tried to rape — women in the four states. He also pleaded guilty in New Orleans’s federal courthouse to plotting to carry out the drugging and rape conspiracy. The cases played out in court years after Sharper won a Super Bowl championship with the New Orleans Saints in February 2010.
NEW ORLEANS —
Admitted serial rapist and former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house in Baltimore.
Court documents show he was taken from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to “community confinement” overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore. Being sent to a halfway house program is an indication of nearing the completion of a sentence. Documents show he is set to be released in 2028.
Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest in 2015 and 2016 in local courts in Louisiana, California, Nevada and Arizona to charges that he had drugged and raped — or tried to rape — women in the four states. He also pleaded guilty in New Orleans’s federal courthouse to plotting to carry out the drugging and rape conspiracy. The cases played out in court years after Sharper won a Super Bowl championship with the New Orleans Saints in February 2010.