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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A St. Joseph, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm following an 11-hour standoff with law enforcement officers. Terrance T. Brown, 41, of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough on Monday, April 22, to 10 years in federal prison without parole, which is the statutory maximum penalty for this offense.
Baltimore, Maryland –Jason Kiser, age 40, of Taneytown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of illegal possession of firearms and witness retaliation. Kiser admitted that he burned the vehicle of an individual in retaliation for that person providing information to law enforcement concerning Kiser’s illegal possession of firearms.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing methamphetamine and a stolen firearm that had been used in two recent shootings. Jeremy G. Helton, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to 11 years in federal prison without parole.
MEDFORD, Ore.—On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Jonathan Alan Ochoa, 31, of Talent, Oregon, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
PHILADELPHIA – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Philadelphia Field Division along with its partners in the Philadelphia Police and Fire Departments, and the Philadelphia Fire Marshal’s Office, announced today the arrest of Joseph Wolbert from Philadelphia, in connection with the 4-alarm fire that occurred on April 7, 2019, at the Thrifty Irishman Thrift Store.