A Bridgeton man who fled a juvenile detention center where he was being held on a murder charge pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from an escape by him and three teens.
Michael Huggins, who turned 20 a month ago, pleaded guilty to second-degree escape and two counts of burglary in the case.
He was 18 when he and three others assaulted a worker and escaped the Harborfields Juvenile Detention Center in Egg Harbor City on Nov. 15, 2017.
The four then stole another worker's vehicle, which they crashed. They then burglarized two homes, using a rifle they stole from the first home to rob the second, where a woman and her two children were home.
Huggins is currently in the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Crosswicks, Burlington County, where he is serving a sentence for reckless manslaughter in the 2016 killing of a man in Bridgeton.
Huggins was sentenced to nine years in prison for that killing. He faces twice that when he is sentenced May 31, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner.
Under the plea agreement, Huggins faces six years for each of the three counts to run consecutive. Two of those terms are subject to the No Early Release Act, meaning he must serve at least 85 percent.
It was not clear whether that sentence would run consecutively or concurrently to his current prison term.
Huggins' attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.
