Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on April 1, 2011, Michael L. Smith, Jr. 25, of O’Fallon, Ill.-, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis to 24 months’ imprisonment, 3 years’ supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and a fine of $200 following his plea of guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.

A Stipulation of Facts filed with the Court states that on July 27, 2010, at the DeShields Housing Projects in East St. Louis, Smith knowingly possessed a firearm and discharged said firearm into the air approximately three times while partying at a birthday celebration for a friend of his. There were no intended or actual victims of the shots fired.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Stephen B. Clark.

 

 

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