CONCORD, N.H. — A federal inmate who escaped from a Manchester halfway house was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Concord to an additional six months in prison, the U.S. attorney's office for New Hampshire said.

Daniel Irving, 35, pleaded guilty July 15 to escape from federal custody. U.S. District Judge Steven J. McAuliffe imposed the sentence.

Irving was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine when he was moved from a federal prison to Hampshire House, a halfway house in Manchester, prosecutors said.

In October 2025, Irving tested positive for cocaine and was told to return to Hampshire House to be disciplined, according to prosecutors. Instead, they said, he cut off his GPS monitor and ran.

He remained a fugitive for four months until the U.S. Marshals Service caught him in late February, prosecutors said. Goffstown and Manchester police assisted in the search.

"Our system trusted the defendant to follow the rules by releasing him to a halfway home," U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan said in a statement. "Mr. Irving violated that trust and will now face additional time in federal prison."

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