In a sentencing memorandum filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Assistant U. S. Attorney Abram McGull suggested a 37-month sentence on the drug charge and five years on the weapons charge with the sentences to run consecutively.
Kimball's sentencing is scheduled Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Springfield.
A grand jury indicted Kimball after the Newton County Sheriff's Office arrested him at a Granby residence.
The crime was detailed in the memorandum:
On September 13, 2017, Newton County Sheriff Office (NCSO) Deputy Joseph Childers was patrolling in Granby, Missouri, when he noticed Joshua Kimball traveling northbound on Main Street.
Childers was aware that Kimball had an outstanding felony warrant for his arrest. Childers initiated a traffic stop and Kimball pulled into a driveway of a home.
When Kimball’s vehicle came to a stop, he exited his vehicle. Childers recognized the suspect as Kimball and placed him under arrest for the outstanding felony warrant. Childers attempted to make contact with the resident where Kimball’s vehicle had parked. No one seemed to be home, so Childers called for a tow truck.
Prior to the tow truck arriving, Childers and other NCSO deputies inventoried the vehicle and found the following items:
1) black Bryco, .380 caliber pistol that was found in Kimball’s backpack located on the front passenger side of the vehicle;
2) Springfield Armory, .9mm pistol loaded with 14 live rounds that was found in the backpack located on the front passenger side of the vehicle;
3) approximately 17 grams of methamphetamine (field tested positive for methamphetamine and sent to Missouri State Highway Patrol Crime Lab);
4) set of digital scales;
5) numerous empty baggies; and
6) $550.00 cash in Kimball’s wallet.
In the memorandum, McGull noted Kimball's long history of criminal activity:
The feisty 27-year old has eleven scored convictions out of a total of sixteen. These convictions included three drug related prosecutions.
What is alarming about Kimball is his willingness to get behind the wheel of a vehicle in violation of the law. He has eight traffic convictions with the majority of those being driving while revoked. Even more alarming, he seems to be driving these vehicles without liability insurance
A defense sentencing memorandum filed March 1 provided letters of support from Kimball's family and friends who cited his commitment to family and generosity to others.
One woman wrote the following:
Joshua is an amazing person with a really good heart. He is always willing to help someone. In fact, he has helped me several times. You see, I am disabled and there are a lot of things that I cannot do physically and he has always helped when he could and when he was available.
I've seen him give his last dollar to someone else so they could get food or something that they needed. I've watched him interact with children and I love how he is always able to make them calm down and smile.
Joshua is an addict and his addiction is the real problem in his life. He would not be in trouble now - or at any time - if it wasn't for his addiction. I just want you to know that Joshua is an amazing person with a really good heart. He is loved very much.
Kimball's mother also offered a testimonial:
We’ve watched Josh struggle with addiction for so long, wanting to be the best son, brother, father and friend he could be and at the same time, something was trying so hard to destroy him.
When his son was born 2 years ago, oh my goodness, he was such a proud and happy daddy, he loves his son and was a great dad, but his addiction got the best of him, that is definitely the hardest part of all this for him.
I know Josh’s heart, I know I'm his mom so those words probably don’t mean much, but he really does have a wonderful heart and care about others. I've seen him stop what he was doing to help an elderly man pick things up from their yard, carry things inside etc. That’s just who he is. I truly hope this helps you to see another side of him.
3 comments:
Yep, the wall will protect us from these criminal types.
That's what President Hair Furor says fer sher!
Stupid wall. What if it did deter even a low number of crime, say 2%, it wouldn't be worth it. People crossing the border illegally aren't breaking any laws of importance anyway. I would bet those crossing the border illegally are less likely to break the law than your average high school substitute teacher. And even if the people who have crossed the border illegally, do commit a crime it is no worse than if a legal citizen committed it. If we can't stop large numbers of crimes, why bother?
But by all means, the hairdo in charge wants a wall. No one else wants it. NO ONE.
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