Birddog1911
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Stumbled on this on the BATFE site:
Don't care a great deal for the ATF, but glad that scum is off the streets.
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan – Jack William Sherman, age 24, of Battle Creek was
sentenced to 110 months in federal prison for his conviction of selling or otherwise disposing of a
firearm to a felon, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. In addition to his prison
sentence, the Hon. Paul L. Maloney, Chief U.S. District Judge, ordered Sherman to serve three years
of supervised release. Mr. Davis was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge
Thomas E. Brandon, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”).
The information presented to the court at the time of Sherman’s guilty plea established that,
in April 2005, Sherman provided Genail Quincy Postley, Jr. with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun
knowing that Postley was a convicted felon. Sherman admitted that he gave Postley the shotgun to
help him “hustle,” which Sherman described as selling drugs or making money in other ways.
Shortly thereafter, on May 9, 2005, Postley used the shotgun to kill Battle Creek Police Detective
LaVern Brann and wound Detective Greg Huggett when the detectives sought to question Postley
about a murder of a taxi driver. Postley fled the area, leading law enforcement on a statewide
manhunt until he was arrested in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 10, 2005. ATF agents were able to
trace the shotgun to Sherman’s grandparents, which provided law enforcement with valuable
information concerning Sherman’s arming of Postley shortly before the fatal shooting. Postley was
convicted in 2007 of murdering Detective Brann, and later pled no contest to the murder of the taxi
driver.
U.S. Attorney Davis said, “This case is a tragic reminder of the vital importance of keeping
legal firearms out of the hands of convicted felons. The ATF and the United States Attorney’s
Office will vigorously investigate and pursue any individual who knowingly provides a felon with
a firearm. When someone arms a criminal with a weapon, the entire community is put in danger.
Anyone who provides a known felon with a firearm or who buys a firearm for a criminal as a ‘straw
purchaser’ faces a stiff penalty of up to ten years in federal prison.” Mr. Davis commended the
extraordinary efforts of the numerous federal, state, and local agencies that participated in the
investigation of this tragic shooting, including the ATF Grand Rapids Field Office and the Battle
Creek Police Department.
Special Agent in Charge Brandon stated, "ATF’s number one mission is to reduce violent
crime; and in this case, I believe we did just that. The significant sentence imposed this afternoon
proves that the Project Safe Neighborhoods partnership works to target not only the most violent
criminals but also the suppliers of firearms to those violent criminals.”
The successful prosecution of Sherman was brought as part of the Project Safe
Neighborhoods (“PSN”) initiative. PSN links federal, state, and local law enforcement in a
coordinated effort to deter gun violence and prosecute serious gun crimes in federal court. Citizens
with information concerning illegal guns, gangs with guns, armed drug trafficking or the trafficking
Don't care a great deal for the ATF, but glad that scum is off the streets.
