BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge today sentenced a Calera man to
15 years and eight months in prison as an armed career criminal, announced
Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Hyche.
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins sentenced
VAUGHN ALEXANDER CROPPER, 29, for possessing a pistol after previously being
convicted of a felony.
According to evidence at his April trial, Birmingham police
arrested Cropper in the early morning hours of Sept. 25, 2016, in the parking
lot of the USA Economy Lodge on Crestwood Boulevard in Irondale. Officers were
responding to a complaint of a disturbance involving a man with a gun. The
police, who were wearing body cameras, captured video of the defendant reaching
into his pocket before officers seized the gun and placed him under arrest.
Cropper has multiple drug-trafficking felonies and qualified
as an armed career criminal, thus facing a minimum sentence of 15 years and a
maximum sentence of life in prison.
The ATF and Birmingham Police Department investigated the
case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory R. Dimler prosecuted.
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