Vallejo man gets four years for being a felon in possession of a firearm

A 44-year-old Vallejo man was sentenced in a federal courtroom Tuesday to more than four years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, a U.S. Attorney said.

Roosevelt Ronee Bohannon

was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to four years and two months for the felony, Phillip A. Talbert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento, said in a press statement.

According to court documents, on April 11, 2019, officers were dispatched to assist with a man who was being combative with members of the Vallejo Fire Department.

Officers arrived on the scene and apprehended Bohannon, who had a revolver tucked into the front of his waistband. Bohannon has previously been convicted of four felony offenses for drug and firearms offenses and is prohibited from possessing firearms, Talbert noted in the prepared statement.

The case was the product of an investigation by the Vallejo Police Department with assistance from the FBI's Solano County

Violent Crimes Task Force and the Solano County District Attorney's Office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Sauvageau prosecuted the case.

This case was prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods Program, the centerpiece of the U.S. Department of Justice's violent crime reduction efforts. Through PSN, a variety of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them, added Talbert.