Greenville, South Carolina —Rashad Jamal Mack, 27, of Spartanburg, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Evidence presented to the court showed officers responded to Oliver Street in Spartanburg in reference to a man with a gun. Officers observed a man, later identified as Mack, who met the description provided to officers. When officers approached Mack, he fled on foot and officers observed him toss a firearm as he fled which officers recovered shortly thereafter. Officers detained Mack and located a .40 caliber magazine and .40 caliber ammunition on his person. The firearm which officers recovered was loaded with .40 caliber ammunition. The firearm had previously been reported as stolen.
United States District Judge Joseph Dawson, III, sentenced Rashad Jamal Mack to 57 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 3-year term of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Spartanburg Police Department as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
Assistant United States Attorney Winston Marosek prosecuted the case.
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