Career criminal Oscar Fowler back in custody on state charges after Biden freed him

Oscar Freemond Fowler III, a repetition offender whose national condemnation was commuted successful the last days of the Biden administration, has been taken backmost into custody to look authorities charges, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday.

"Moments ago, we took Oscar Fowler, a unsafe vocation transgression who was commuted by Biden’s autopen, into custody to look authorities charges," Uthmeier wrote successful a station connected X. 

He thanked the St. Petersburg Police Department and ATF Tampa for assisting successful the arrest, adding that "Florida is safer due to the fact that of our section and national instrumentality enforcement partners."

Fowler had been serving a 12-year, 6-month national situation condemnation aft pleading blameworthy successful 2024 to being a felon successful possession of a firearm and possession with intent to administer cocaine.

Federal prosecutors had pushed for astatine slightest 150 months down bars, citing Fowler's lengthy transgression past and arguing helium posed an ongoing menace to the public.

Despite that record, Fowler was included successful a Jan. 17, 2025 enforcement assistance of clemency commuting the sentences of much than 2,500 inmates nether President Joe Biden. 

A commutation reduces a condemnation but does not erase the conviction. Fowler was released from national custody arsenic a result.

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Fowler, a 48-year-old with a decades-long transgression history, is acceptable to beryllium released from national situation connected Thursday, February 19. Fowler is seen present from a 2013 booking photo.  (Pinellas County Jail)

The clemency warrant, issued successful Washington and bearing Biden’s signature, was 1 of respective documents critics accidental were executed utilizing an autopen.

Fowler’s merchandise drew scrutiny, peculiarly from the Oversight Project, a blimpish investigative group. 

The radical warned Florida officials astir Fowler’s merchandise and argued his transgression past contradicted claims that the clemency inaugural focused connected nonviolent offenders.

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Former President Joe Biden spoke to the paper's reporters successful a 10-minute telephone telephone regarding the increasing questions from President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers astir the legality of Biden's pardons successful the last days of his presidency, which were mostly signed utilizing an autopen. (DOJ/Getty)

"He is simply a unsafe transgression who’s expected to beryllium successful jailhouse for a precise agelong time," Oversight Project President Mike Howell told Fox News Digital astatine the time. 

"This is the nonstop idiosyncratic that should beryllium successful national custody," helium said.

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, tribunal records amusement Fowler’s transgression past spans much than a decade. 

The astir superior allegations impact the 2013 shooting decease of Naykee Bostic successful St. Petersburg, which happened soon aft Fowler was released from a anterior national sentence. 

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Former President Joe Biden requested enforcement privilege arsenic the House and Senate investigates his administration's usage of an autopen, Fox Digital learned.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Bostic was recovered with 25 gunshot wounds. Fowler was charged but acquitted successful 2017 aft 2 anterior mistrials.

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A 2024 national sentencing memorandum cited by critics besides stated that Fowler made a video-recorded admittance to the sidesplitting and expressed willingness to usage unit again.

These were assertions prosecutors referenced erstwhile seeking a agelong condemnation successful his astir caller case.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Florida lawyer general's bureau for comment.

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