The Justice Department issued the following statement.
A Missouri woman was sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison for helping her co-defendant, who discharged a firearm during the commission of a robbery that killed three people.
According to court documents, Jamison Layne Townsend, 42, and her co-defendant, Joshua Michael Garcia, went to Bill’s Coin & Jewelry on December 17, 2016, to rob the business. During the robbery, Garcia shot and killed the owner and two co-workers. Townsend and Garcia emptied the display cases of watches, rings, necklaces, bracelets, coins, and other items. Later that day, they entered a pawn shop in Mobile, Alabama, and pawned five items that were stolen from Bill’s earlier that day.
On December 19, 2016, a trooper with the Tennessee Highway Patrol attempted to stop Townsend and Garcia, who were traveling in a red Dodge Charger on Interstate 24. A chase ensued and Townsend and Garcia escaped at a high rate of speed. Two days later, Townsend and Garcia were arrested in Geary County, Kansas. Officers searched the Charger and found numerous items that were stolen from Bill’s, including coins, watches, trays of jewelry, and many items that still contained the sales tags from Bill’s. Additionally, officers recovered four firearms, including a Les Baer .45 caliber handgun that was determined to be the murder weapon by the Mississippi State Crime Laboratory. Ammunition, a cell phone, and numerous items of clothing were also recovered from the Dodge Charger.
Townsend pled guilty on September 18, 2023, to three counts of accessory after the fact.
Joshua Michael Garcia previously pled guilty to discharging a firearm that resulted in the murder of three persons during the commission of a robbery. He was sentenced to three life sentences.
U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Orench of the Federal Bureau of Investigation made the announcement.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Jackson Police Department with assistance from the Geary County, Kansas, Sherriff’s Department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Mississippi State Crime Laboratory, the United States Marshal’s Service, the Gulfport Police Department, and the Biloxi Police Department.
The case was prosecuted by Criminal Chief Erin Chalk.
19 comments:
Good job.
Only 10 Years?
Had the opportunity to intervene and do the right thing but didn't.
Regardless of cooperation or not sentence should have been much longer.
Another judge shirking his duty?
What's wrong here? It took 7 years for Townsend to get to the point of sentencing and one that was entirely to lenient, and Garcia should not have been allowed to plead guilty in order to avoid the death penalty.
It took 8 years to get a plea on a triple homicide. Our system is broken.
Assume the wife of one of the decedents had given birth on the day of her husband's murder. That child would be six years old today.
Hopefully the criminal in this story does not just have four to serve.
2016 => 2024 Justice delayed is justice denied.
not enough
America is broken.
This is why the NAACP is doing the right thing and protesting appointed judges.
Jackson does not need any help. The current system is just fine.
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I miss the guys at Bill's. Genuinely nice people.
No sentence will bring them back. I think about them often.
Thank God, 1:53, that Jackson Justice had no role to play in this federal case. If it had been, not a soul would have spent the night in a bunk, yet.
Court decision that states as the defendant was incarcerated in June 2022, which implies that the defendant has likely been incarcerated since her arrest on Dec 21, 2016.
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-townsend-115
IANAL but
CHECK MY MATH: 10 years sentence @ 85% less time served = she will be back runnig the streets soon?
"...was incarcerated in June 2022, which implies that the defendant has likely been incarcerated since her arrest on Dec 21, 2016."
I don't know how you arrive at that. I infer no such thing.
They both should have been executed by December 2017. and the 3 current escapees deserve a swift death sentence.
All their prowess and power the feds are weak as shit when it comes to really prosecuting a serious crime that doesn't involve money, laundering and drugs. Oh, she was gleeful outside the store after they killed everybody and they gonna let her go like this. What a joke. I hope you feds read this. What a joke y'all are. He already got prison time in Madison County. Y'all did nothing on this case.
Not much difference between the US attorneys office and Hines county DAs office anymore
Life is cheap in Hinds County, but what's new?
@1:53. One word: Constitution.
@8:20- You are Exactly correct
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