SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Chad R. Weis, a 32-year-old Greenfield man, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison without parole for possessing methamphetamine to distribute and illegally possessing a firearm.
Weis crashed his motorcycle into another vehicle during a police chase on June 14, 2017, after he was seen driving a Kawasaki motorcycle by a Springfield, Mo., police officer and an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The officers had active warrants for Weis’s arrest and noticed he didn’t have a valid license to operate the motorcycle.
When the law enforcement officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, Weis accelerated and ran a stop sign, colliding with a Lexus sedan at the intersection of Division and Lyon Street. Weis then fled on foot, throwing a green backpack and a small canvas bag over a fence during the pursuit.
Officers found a loaded Taurus .38-caliber revolver in the front-left pocket of Weis’s shorts when he was apprehended. Inside the backpack, they discovered a loaded Kel-Tec 9mm semi-automatic pistol. Inside the canvas bag, they found a clear plastic bag containing 13.49 grams of 97 percent pure methamphetamine and a digital scale.
Weis had pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime on April 10, 2019. U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark handed down the 25-year sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nhan D. Nguyen prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the Springfield, Mo., Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is partnering with federal, state, and local law enforcement to specifically identify criminals responsible for significant violent crime in the Western District of Missouri through Project Safe Neighborhoods. This program aims to reduce violent crime and make neighborhoods safer by focusing enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partnering with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
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Key Facts
- State: Missouri
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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