Portland Man Sentenced to 1½ Years for Illegally Possessing Firearm

Contact: Darcie N. McElwee
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Cory Girard, 27, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of marijuana. He pled guilty on October 1, 2015.

According to court records, on January 8, 2010, Girard was found by police at a Rackleff Street, Portland apartment in possession of a semi-automatic pistol that he purchased in October 2009 and used to protect his drug trafficking business.  Over that period of time, Girard was an illegal daily user of marijuana and had smoked marijuana on January 8, 2010.

The investigation was conducted by the Portland Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.