Convicted in the infamous "stolen valor" case, Sarah Cavanaugh had been living in a Pawtucket halfway house until her recent rearrest.

Sarah Cavanaugh , imprisoned since 2023 for posing as a decorated disabled Marine with cancer and accepting money from charity groups, is back behind bars after allegedly violating rules of a Pawtucket halfway house, court records indicate.

U.S. Marshals arrested Cavanaugh, 34, on Aug. 15, and transported her to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls after she allegedly created “a hostile environment” days earlier for an incoming resident at Houston House , records show.

A report of the incident, included in Cavanaugh’s appeal that she not return to federal prison, says she asked halfway house staff about the gender identity of th

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