U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama
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Geneva County Man Sentenced to More Than Nine Years in Prison for Federal Gun Charges
On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Jermaine Dale Jones, a 35-year-old man from Geneva County, Alabama, was sentenced to 112 months in prison for federal firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Jones will be on supervised release for three years.
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Montgomery Woman Sentenced to 11 Years in Federal Prison for Her Participation in Multiple Armed Robberies
On February 12, 2020, Diamond Markayla Mathis, 24, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison for her role in committing multiple armed robberies and violating federal firearms laws, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley. Following her 11-year prison sentence, Mathis will be on supervised release for three years. She was also ordered to pay $6,975.00 in restitution to the victims.
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Former Alabama Correctional Lieutenant Indicted for Allowing Inmate Abuse
The Justice Department announced that a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, returned a two-count indictment charging former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Lieutenant Willie Burks, 39, with failing to stop a sergeant under his command from kicking and striking with a baton a handcuffed and compliant inmate at ADOC’s Elmore Correctional Facility.