A convict in Seattle who sports an extremely long rap sheet was taken back into custody after being found inside a dumpster this past Thursday in the wake of fleeing from a hospital room wearing nothing at all in an attempt to evade police forces.
29-year-old Billy Chambers was injured in the wake of a shootout and multiple vehicle collision in Seattle, reported Fox13. Chambers was transported to a local hospital, where he gave the authorities a fake name and requested a lawyer, reported the King County Prosecutor’s Office to the assembled media. He then fled the area.
Police officials found out that Chambers had a felony warrant out for his arrest due to escaping community custody. The prosecutors also alleged that Chambers possessed a firearm on his person, which has been illegal for him to have for quite a while due to previous felony convictions. Most notably, back in 2008 as a teenager, Chambers was officially convicted of manslaughter in the group killing of Ed “Tuba Man” McMichael.
The “Tuba Man” was a well-known fixture throughout Seattle that often played his instrument all across the city for various festivals, sporting events, and other cultural activities. It was reported by Fox 13 that Chambers has been arrested over eight times since the murder of McMichael. He had also committed at least five felonies throughout that time as well.
Then, in 2010, Chambers served time in prison in the wake of a conviction for using a fake weapon to rob a man in downtown Seattle. Then in 2011, Chambers was sentenced to further prison time for hit and run and attempted assault after using his vehicle to ram into a woman’s car after she reported him for allegedly stealing items from her car.
In 2013, which was just a scant two weeks after being let out of prison, Chamers was arrested once again and officially convicted of having an illegal rifle in the wake of authorities catching him and some other men stealing items from a car in the Burien neighborhood of Seattle.
For those crimes, he was slammed with a sex year prison stint which would be followed by three years of supervised release, reported Komo News.
“This is your last best chance,” stated Judge Robert Lasnik stated to him in 2013. “Please take advantage of it.”
Chamber’s sister was very confident that the man, who was only 20 years old when he went to prison in 2013, was taking strides to turn his life around.
“He’s saying things I’ve never heard him say,” she stated, also reported by Komo News. “He’s growing into a man.”
There has been no word from police as to whether or not any charges will be pressed against Chambers for this most recent collision with the law.