BOSTON – A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S.
District Court in Worcester in connection with using a firearm to threaten his
parents.
Jamel Bolden, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge
Timothy S. Hillman to 78 months in prison and three years of supervised
release. In November 2014, Bolden pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally
possess a firearm and ammunition and conspiring to distribute cocaine.
On June 3, 2013, during a domestic dispute with his mother
and his stepfather, Bolden brandished a silver long-barreled revolver and told
his stepfather that he would “lay him down” (i.e., shoot him). Bolden had been
previously convicted of three counts of armed robbery and was currently on
probation for these offenses. Immediately after Bolden threatened to shoot his
stepfather, Bolden fled from the police and hid the revolver at a nearby
elementary school.
Bolden has also agreed to pleaded guilty to assault with a
dangerous weapon in a related case in Hampden Superior Court.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Daniel J. Kumor,
Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives, Boston Field Office; and Springfield Police Commissioner John
Barbieri made the announcement today. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Steven H. Breslow of Ortiz's Springfield Branch Office.
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