Defendant Was An International Fugitive For Over Four Years To Avoid Sentencing for Stalking
WASHINGTON – Ranjith Keerikkattil, 35, formerly of Catonsville, Md., was found guilty by a jury for committing two felony violations of the Bail Reform Act by failing to appear in court on two occasions following a 2018 guilty jury verdict for stalking a co-worker, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves.
Keerikkattil was found guilty of the stalking charge on July 9, 2018, following a jury trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Honorable Robert A. Salerno released Keerikkattil following the verdict, pending sentencing. The judge ordered him to appear the next morning to have a GPS monitoring device installed. However, he failed to appear, and fled the United States, instead, ending up in Australia where he remained a fugitive for over four years. A grand jury subsequently indicted him on July 11, 2018, for a felony charge of violating the Bail Reform Act. The grand jury returned a superseding indictment on March 1, 2023, charging an additional violation of the Bail Reform Act for failing to return as ordered for his sentencing on September 14, 2018.
The Honorable Heidi Pasichow continued to hold Keerikkattil without bail pending his sentencing hearing on January 3, 2024.
According to the government’s evidence at trial, the criminal conduct began in May 2015, while Keerikkattil was a senior consultant at a consulting firm in Rosslyn, Va. The victim, who...
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