FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 20, 2007
ANTHONY ROLLINS PLEADS GUILTY IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings on December 20, 2007, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, ANTHONY ROLLINS pled guilty to distribution of cocaine and use of a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. Sentencing is set for March 20, 2008. He is currently detained.
In an Offer of Proof filed by the United States, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
Testimony would have shown that an individual traded a teener (1/16th of an ounce) of cocaine powder to ROLLINS for a Shandong First Machinery Co. 12 gauge shotgun, Model UCN1201. Further testimony would have shown that this individual also sold ROLLINS 1/8th of an ounce of cocaine on four separate occasions
ROLLINS faces possible penalties of a mandatory 5 years in prison and could be sentenced to the maximum of life in prison, a $1,000,000 fine and 3 years supervised release. In addition, ROLLINS faces an additional mandatory five year imprisonment, consecutive to any other sentence, for the use or possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime or in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James E. Seykora prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was conducted by the Billings Big Sky Safe Streets Task Force.
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A copy of the Offer of Proof can be obtained by contacting Sally Frank at (406) 247-4638.
