14-year prison sentence assessed for man shot in jail
A person charged with taking pictures himself in the Cole County Jail in 2019 was sentenced to 14 yrs in federal prison right after pleading guilty to a charge he faced for that incident.
All through a hearing Thursday morning, Brandon McNeese, 36, was sentenced for pleading responsible to staying a felon in possession of a firearm. He entered his plea back in Oct.
According to court docket documents, the taking pictures occurred Nov. 25, 2019, and McNeese experienced a wound to his upper left arm.
The Bureau of Liquor, Tobacco and Firearms obtained a video clip and mobile phone contact recordings from the sheriff’s place of work of the jail pod location wherever the capturing took put.
A 50 percent-hour ahead of the taking pictures, McNeese and another inmate remaining their cell but remaining the door partially open up. Just after a few of minutes, McNeese went back into the mobile and remaining the door open. The movie confirmed a couple inmates came into and out of the cell.
About 5 minutes into the movie, authorities said a bang is heard in the qualifications. An inmate peeks inside of the mobile McNeese was noticed going into earlier, but he does not enter. A further inmate closes the door to the mobile.
A few of minutes afterwards, two inmates came out of the mobile and shut the door at the rear of them, then the two stand by the door. About a moment afterwards, a loud sounds was heard on a phone recording.
The two males at the cell doorway walked away and into the common space of the jail pod.
The doorway to McNeese’s cell opened partially and McNeese was found sliding one thing with his foot out of the mobile and into the corner of the open up area just outside the house his doorway. McNeese then went again into the cell and shut the doorway. A different loud sound was read at this issue on the telephone recording.
A guard arrived and went to McNeese’s cell and noticed the firearm, a .22-caliber pistol, exterior the mobile doorway. The guard opened the cell and discovered McNeese alone in the cell with a gunshot wound.
Underneath federal regulation, it is unlawful for everyone convicted of a felony to possess any firearm or ammunition. McNeese has a prior federal felony conviction for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
This incident led to the Cole County Commission approving the purchase of a overall body scanner for the jail in December 2019 at a cost of $166,250. It went into procedure in February 2020.
The cash to invest in the scanner arrived out of the Sheriff Department’s contingency fund.
Sheriff John Wheeler said the body scanner is meant to be employed only on inmates having said that, staff could scan workforce or website visitors if they felt there was a cause.
Jailers do not carry firearms in the jail, the sheriff mentioned.
McNeese has submitted a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Courtroom from Wheeler and his office for insufficient medical care soon after he was shot. A standing listening to on the situation is scheduled for October.
McNeese’s sentencing Thursday also handles his guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to distribute additional than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
In October 2018, McNeese was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug distribution in Jefferson Town.
Regulation enforcement officers conducted a managed buy of methamphetamine from McNeese, applying a confidential informant, on Aug. 2, 2018, in accordance to court documents. He marketed the informant about 5 ounces of methamphetamine for $2,000. For the duration of the transaction, the affidavit notes, McNeese left his home and traveled to a close by residence. Investigators later on discovered he left a motor vehicle parked at that home.
Investigators discovered a cellophane bag below the parked automobile, which contained a number of smaller luggage believed to incorporate narcotics. A K-9 device was made use of to sniff the automobile and alerted officers to the existence of managed substances.
