NEWS RELEASE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
A. COURTNEY COX, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
Nine Executive Drive, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208, Telephone (618) 628-3700
For Immediate Release MAY 15, 2009
POMONA MAN SENTENCED FOR FIREARM OFFENSE
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on May 14, 2009 GREGORY L. ROWE, age 39, of Pomona, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois. ROWE, who had previously pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment, 3 years’ supervised release, and was fined $400.
According to public information from court records and proceedings, the investigation established that, on July 9, 2008, ROWE possessed a stolen firearm at his Jackson County residence. That firearm had previously been taken during a Williamson County residential burglary. The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Murphysboro Police Department, and Williamson County Sheriff’s Office pursuant to those agencies’ participation in the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative. The goal of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative is to remove illegal guns and drugs from our communities. Under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative, federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutors are working together to prosecute drug dealers, felons in possession of firearms, and criminals that use firearms to commit violent offenses or drug trafficking offenses in the system that will get them the most time.
The case was assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Amanda A. Robertson for prosecution.