Federal Inmate Sentenced for Drug and Weapon Possession

            CONCORD, N.H. – Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Rahshim Carter, an inmate at the federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months after pleading guilty to possessing Suboxone and a homemade weapon known as a shank.  The sentence will run consecutive to his current sentence for being a felon in possession of a weapon.

            Pleadings filed with the court and statements made at the sentencing hearing established that staff at FCI-Berlin were conducting a health and sanitation check at the prison on November 24, 2016.  When they opened Carter’s cell, the staff smelled smoke.  Carter exited his cell and immediately tried to evade the prison staff by running around the second tier of the unit and jumping to the first tier.  Prison staff eventually subdued Carter and a search found the homemade weapon and a quantity of Suboxone, which is a controlled substance.

            The case was investigated by the staff at the Bureau of Prisons, FCI-Berlin.  Assistant United States Attorney Donald Feith prosecuted the case.

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