Swan’s Island Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Illegally Possessing Guns and Ammunition

Contact:  James M. Moore
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Shaun G. Lemoine, 36, of Swan’s Island, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.  Lemoine pleaded guilty on March 17, 2015. 

Court records reveal that on January 24, 2014, the Swan’s Island Police Department executed a warrant at Lemoine’s home and seized two firearms and 48 rounds of ammunition.  Lemoine was prohibited from possessing these items because of prior federal (gun) and state (burglary and theft) felony convictions.
     
Prior to this sentencing, the defendant had been jailed over a half dozen times including being sentenced three times in federal court.  The defendant also obstructed justice in this case by pressuring a witness to provide false information.  In imposing the lengthy sentence, Judge Woodcock said that the defendant’s attempt to cover up his crime and his lengthy criminal history spoke “volumes about [his] utter disrespect for the law” and that “the only answer [was] to place [him] in jail.”

The investigation was conducted by the Swan’s Island Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.