PERU – A former Peru surgeon who pleaded guilty to stalking and was a fugitive for two days after fleeing in-home detention will serve more than nine years in prison.
Gregory Konrath, 50, who was formerly an orthopedic surgeon at Dukes Memorial Hospital, was issued the sentence Monday by Miami Superior Court II Judge Dan Banina after Konrath pleaded guilty to escape in June.
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Konrath had served only two weeks of a one-year sentence of in-home detention for stalking when he cut his tracking bracelet while driving in April and threw it out the window.
He was apprehended two days later about one mile west of Flagstaff, Arizona, along Interstate 40, by officers from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Konrath initially was arrested on charges of attempted murder in July 2014 after prosecutors said he had taken significant steps in a plot to kill his ex-wife.
He accepted a plea agreement on a charge of stalking after prosecutors said he violated a court order prohibiting him from contacting people involved in the case while he was out of jail on bond on the attempted murder charge.
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“This is an interesting case to say the least,” Banina said during Monday’s hearing. “I don’t usually have doctors in my courtroom, and this case has twists and turns that are, honestly, perplexing.”
Banina issued the nine-year sentence after listening to arguments from Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Christian Sands and defense attorney Eric Huneryager.
Sands asked the judge to issue Konrath the maximum 30-month sentence on the escape charge, as well as revoke an 8-year suspended prison sentence on the stalking charge, arguing Konrath never had any “intention to comply with any orders set in front of him.”
Those court orders included instructions not to contact his ex-wife and girlfriend, which he attempted to do. The court also suspended Konrath’s passport because he was considered to be at high risk for fleeing.
“The first opportunity he gets at freedom and at being released from a cage, what does he do?” Sands asked. “He’s having pictures taken for a new passport for the one that had already been suspended by the court.”
He argued placing Konrath on probation or in-home detention again would be unproductive, considering he violated both probation and in-home detention when he was placed on them for the stalking charge.
“The defendant’s history with non-compliance is epic,” he said. “ … He has taken no responsibility for the actions that put him on the bench this morning.”
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Huneryager asked Banina for leniency on the sentencing, arguing that Konrath had made a “train wreck of his life,” but had been a productive citizen until his arrest last year.
“To say he has thumbed his nose at the system his whole life is incorrect,” he said. “His history of non-criminal conduct doesn’t deserve a full sentence.”
Konrath, who wore an orange jumpsuit and had grown a full beard since his arrest on the escape charge, declined to make a statement during the hearing.
After listening to the arguments, Banina said he felt he issued Konrath a fair sentence on the stalking charge, but he violated the court’s trust by fleeing.
Looking at Konrath, Banina said, “I gave you a chance. It’s unfortunate that you didn’t take advantage of it. I’ve come to the conclusion you have no intention of complying with any court order.”
Banina then revoked the eight-year suspended prison sentence on the stalking charge, and issued a one-year sentence on the escape charge. Konrath will serve the remaining time left on his in-home detention sentence in prison.
“I’ve come to the conclusion you have no intention of complying with the law,” he told Konrath.
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