DAYTON – A former military subcontractor was sentenced in
U.S. District Court today to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised
release for illegally possessing a firearm silencer and equipment that was
property of the United States.
Joel Montgomery, 50, pleaded guilty to two counts in December
2019: possessing a silencer not registered to him and retaining United States
property with a value of more than $1,000.
According to court documents, in June 2015, Montgomery
possessed at his home a firearm silencer that was not registered to him in the
National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
While executing another search warrant at his home in
October 2015, agents discovered an AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System and a
Control Countermeasures Set Display Unit that were property of the United
States.
Montgomery had previously been employed as a subcontractor
on a local military base, and during that time, had gained access to the
property of the United States. Upon the end of his employment contract,
Montgomery did not return equipment valued at more than $1,000 and instead kept
the equipment for his personal use.
David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern
District of Ohio; Chris Hoffman, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division; and Jonathan McPherson, Special Agent
in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced
the sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Thomas M. Rose.
Assistant United States Attorneys Brent G. Tabacchi and Dwight Keller are
representing the United States in this case.
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