Greensboro, NC – A Florida man already serving a 47-year federal sentence for violent cryptocurrency home invasions was handed nearly seven more years in prison Thursday for launching a brutal attack on a cooperating witness who testified against him.

Remy Ra St Felix, 25, of West Palm Beach, pleaded guilty earlier this year to retaliating against a federal witness after he assaulted the individual inside a detention center in Greensboro on October 8. Prosecutors said St Felix was being held at the facility when he was let out of a holding cell and immediately began punching the witness—who was shackled at the time—striking him repeatedly in the head and body while shouting insults and calling him a “rat.”

The attack came after Witness-1 had testified in open court about St Felix’s role

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