BISMARCK – U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that
on August 28, 2017, Vernon Valentino Pook Jr. was sentenced before U.S.
District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 10 years in prison for Discharge of a
Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Judge Hovland also
sentenced Pook Jr. to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a
$100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
In the early morning hours of June 5, 2016, Pook Jr. fired
14 rounds from a Springfield XD 9mm handgun into an occupied residence on
Center Street, Bismarck, ND and vehicles parked outside, for an untimely
repayment for an ounce of marihuana.
This case was investigated by the Bismarck Police Department
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Special Assistant United States Attorney Dawn Deitz
prosecuted the case.
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