Fort Myers, Florida – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced William Earl Siebert (47, Cape Coral) to 5 years and 10 months successful national situation for unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device. Siebert had pleaded blameworthy connected June 16, 2022.
According to tribunal documents, connected August 27, 2019, Siebert was arrested for driving nether the power pursuing a single-vehicle postulation mishap connected Del Prado Boulevard successful Cape Coral. Later, erstwhile his conveyance was searched, officers recovered a tube weaponry attached to a yard-stake timer, which contained a quantity of explosive pulverization and an assortment of shrapnel. Court records showed that Siebert had antecedently been convicted of second-degree execution and served a 25-year authorities situation condemnation successful transportation with that case.
This lawsuit was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, and the Cape Coral Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Simon R. Eth.
This lawsuit is portion of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a programme bringing unneurotic each levels of instrumentality enforcement and the communities they service to trim convulsive transgression and weapon violence, and to marque our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a convulsive transgression simplification strategy strengthening PSN based connected these halfway principles: fostering spot and legitimacy successful our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assistance forestall unit from occurring successful the archetypal place, mounting focused and strategical enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.
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