A Monroeville man was sentenced by a federal court judge to 57 months in prison after being convicted for manufacturing drugs and being a felon in possession of a firearm.Â
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama, James Edward Hill, Jr., 50, was arrested in 2022 when Monroe County law enforcement officers executed a search warrant of his house.Â
Officers cocaine powder and equipment used to make cocaine powder into crack cocaine, as well as a .38 caliber firearm.Â
Hill was on federal supervision after he was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine in 2011. His sentence will be followed by five years of supervised release.Â
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case, with U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. Dubose imposing the sentence.
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