BANGOR, Maine — A woman sentenced to four years in federal prison for robbing a local bank in 2010 and fleeing in a taxicab was arrested Wednesday for violating her federal supervised release a second time.
Matisha Marie Pitts, 29, of Bangor is being held without bail pending a detention hearing scheduled Monday in U.S. District Court. A hearing on the revocation of her supervised release is set for March 9.
Pitts is accused of not taking her medications and leaving the Northern Maine Regional Reentry Center in Bangor without permission.
Last month, U.S. District Judge John Woodcock sent Pitts back to jail for violating her supervised release. The judge told Pitts on Jan. 13 that it was with “extreme reluctance” he accepted the recommendation of U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services and sentenced Pitts to 45 days, which included the month she was held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail awaiting the resolution of her case.
The jail term was to be followed by a year of supervised release. The first 90 days were to be spent in community confinement at the re-entry center, located on the campus of the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center in Bangor.
Pitts admitted in 2011 she robbed Bangor Savings Bank the year before. She took a cab to and from the Bangor bank and was arrested a few hours later near her apartment on Kenduskeag Avenue, according to previously published reports.
She was released from federal prison in May and began serving three years of supervised release.
Pitts told Woodcock in January she was homeless and had trouble getting services to address her mental health and substance abuse issues when she arrived back in Bangor.
She could be sent back to federal prison for up to two years if she is found to have violated her supervised release.