The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 22, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, MICHAEL DAVID BAILEY, a 34-year-old resident of Missoula, Montana, was sentenced to a term of:
Prison: 180 months
Special Assessment: $ 100
Restitution: N/A
Supervised Release: 5 years
Bailey was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
In an Offer of Proof filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan McCarthy, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
On July 14, 2013, the Montana Violent Crime Task Force apprehended the defendant in Billings. When he was apprehended, the defendant was in possession of a Hi-Point Firearms Model C9 9mm Luger handgun, Serial Number P1621713. The defendant had been convicted in October of 2011 for a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year, and he was prohibited from possessing a handgun at the time of this incident.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys