Vick stops in Atlanta on return to Kansas

Michael Vick’s appearance at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta was merely a stopover during a routine transfer, Bureau of Prisons officials said.

After his brief stay in a federal prison in Virginia so he could attend a bankruptcy court hearing last week, Vick’s name appeared Friday on the inmate list at the Atlanta penitentiary.

Vick, who arrived at the Atlanta facility Thursday afternoon, was headed back to the federal lockup in Leavenworth, Kan., where he has served most of his 23-month sentence on dogfighting conspiracy charges. Such stops are not unusual because inmates are picked up or dropped off at various facilities along the way.

The suspended Falcons quarterback had been in Virginia last week to testify at his bankruptcy hearing in Newport News. At the hearing, a judge rejected Vick’s plan to pay creditors and scheduled another hearing on revisions for April 28.

Vick’s attorneys asked the judge to keep him in Virginia to facilitate more work on the plan, but the judge said he did not have the authority.