MISSOULA—An Arlee man with a felony record was sentenced
today to five years in prison and three years of supervised release after he
admitted to illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
Gregory Scott Tolley, 59, pleaded guilty to felon in
possession of a firearm in September.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy presided.
The prosecution said in court records that in December 2018,
Tolley was arrested on a state court warrant for failure to appear. At the
time, Tolley also was on state probation for felony theft. Officers searched
the vehicle Tolley was driving and found a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and ammunition.
In 1994, Tolley was convicted in federal District Court in Montana of being a
felon in possession of a firearm and for possession of an unregistered firearm
and sentenced to 13.5 years in prison. Tolley knew he could not possess
firearms because he had signed firearm notification forms in 2007 and 2012,
acknowledging that his felony convictions prohibited him from having firearms
or ammunition.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Cyndee Peterson prosecuted the case,
which was investigated by the FBI, Mineral County Sheriff’s Office, Montana
Probation and Parole, the Montana Highway Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service.
The case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which
is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction
efforts. PSN is an evidence-based
program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad
spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent
crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address
them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most
violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry
programs for lasting reductions in crime.
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