Article: WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS MAN SENTENCED TO THREE LIFE SENTENCES FOR DRUG, FIREARMS OFFENSES

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives' Dallas Field Office issued the following press release:

U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper announced that Wichita Falls, Texas, resident Maurice Johnson, Jr., a/k/a "Crackcorn," was sentenced today before the Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer, United States Senior District Judge to three life sentences and three sentences of 360 months imprisonment. After a three-day jury trial in December 2006, Johnson, 38, was convicted on all six counts in a federal indictment charging him with various drug and firearms offenses. Roper stated, "This stiff sentence continues the successful Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative ...

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