A federal judge has handed sentences ranging from probation to nine years in prison to 20 people convicted of taking part in a stolen car ring operating out of Savannah and Statesboro. U.S. Attorney Edmund A. Booth Jr. said Tuesday that dozens of vehicles worth a total of more than $1 million were stolen and sold to co-conspirators at steep discounts, with altered vehicle identification numbers and counterfeit titles. Booth says U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr., at sentencing hearings in May and June, also ordered defendants to pay restitution amounts of up to $426,000. Booth's office says 41-year-old Jimmy Lee Everett of Brooklet, convicted of trafficking in vehicles with altered VIN, received the stiffest sentence: nine years in prison and $332,000 in restitution.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
