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Swaggerty gets lengthy prison term
Freddie Swaggerty, 52, Jimtown Road, Newport, has been sentenced by the US District Judge Leon Jordan, to serve 188 months in federal prison. Swaggerty was also ordered to remain under supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office for five years after he is released from federal prison. Following a jury trial, Swaggerty was convicted in May of two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Evidence produced at trial established that Swaggerty approached Cocke County Sheriff’s Officers on the Cocke County Courthouse lawn with three loaded firearms protruding from his pockets. The officers knew that Swaggerty is a convicted felon and prohibited from possession of a firearm. But when officers attempted to remove the weapons, the subject allegedly tried to put his hand into his pocket where one of the handguns was located. Eventually the pistols were removed, and upon further questioning, Swaggerty admitted he had other pistols in his pocket. Those gun were recovered as well. The weapons were loaded when they were recovered. Investigators said the subject has convictions for multiple felonies, including drug convictions and has served terms in prison. The charges against Swaggerty were the result of an investigation conducted by the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a comprehensive national strategy that creates local partnerships with law enforcement agencies to effectively enforce existing gun laws.
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