Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was taken by U.S. marshals from a state prison and is heading to a federal facility to serve his time for killing George Floyd more than two years ago, a Minnesota corrections spokesman said.
Chauvin was picked up by marshals about 8 a.m. at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights, Department of Corrections (DOC) spokesman Nicholas Kimball said.
Marshals Service spokesman Michael Fuller said Chauvin was being flown to a federal prison. Fuller said that Chauvin would likely have been in ground transportation if bound for one of Minnesota's federal lockups.
Federal officials said late Wednesday afternoon that Chauvin was being moved to a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Tucson, Ariz., where there are medium- and high-security lockups.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Chauvin in July to more than 20 years in prison for violating the civil rights of Floyd and a Black Minneapolis teen. That is less than the term he was already serving on state murder charges for killing Floyd while arresting him in May 2020.
Magnuson said during sentencing that he intended to request that federal prison officials place Chauvin at a location near family who live between Iowa and Minnesota. But he acknowledged that judges cannot dictate where prison sentences are served.
The federal sentence is being served concurrently with his 22½-year state term for Floyd's murder. He will also serve five years of supervised release when he leaves custody in roughly 17 years.
When Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty in December to violating Floyd's civil rights and admitted to kneeling on the neck of a then-14-year-old boy three years before Floyd's death, he agreed to a sentence of 20 to 25 years.
