MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney
for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael V. Pierce, 40,
Spring Valley, Wis., was sentenced to a cumulative 54 months in federal prison
following two federal court hearings yesterday. First, Pierce appeared before
U.S. District Judge Lynn S. Adelman, who sentenced Pierce to 42 months for
possessing a firearm in January 2014 while a felon.
Pierce pleaded guilty to this offense on May 20, 2014. Judge
Adelman noted that the defendant had been involved in a violent domestic
dispute before retrieving the loaded shotgun and indicated that a prison term
was necessary to deter Pierce from committing additional crimes and to protect
the community.
At the time Pierce illegally possessed the firearm described
above, he was on federal supervised release following 2002 federal convictions
for firearm and drug offenses. Yesterday, Pierce also appeared before U.S.
District Judge William M. Conley to address Pierce’s violations of his supervised
release conditions. In addition to the January 2014 firearm offense, Pierce
stipulated to using drugs and failing to attend drug treatment sessions.
Judge Conley revoked Pierce’s supervised release and imposed
a 12-month sentence for the violations, to run consecutively to the sentence
imposed by Judge Adelman.
The charge against Pierce was the result of an investigation
conducted by the Spring Valley Police Department and Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The prosecution of the case has been handled
by Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea.
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