An investigation that started in February when detectives from the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the home of Jason Elliott on New Hope Road reached the sentencing phase of his case on Thursday in Federal court. 

     Elliott was prosecuted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and was indicted by a federal grand jury on weapons charges. He pled guilty to a charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Court Judge Curtis L. Collier ordered Elliott to serve 33 months in federal custody followed by 3 years of supervised release.  At the time of his arrest detectives seized several weapons and controlled substances.     

     In an unrelated matter that was heard recently in Federal court, Robert A. Klein was found guilty of possessing the ingredients and components to manufacture meth.  Klein, who is now 54 years old, was arrested during a joint investigation by the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office, the Cleveland Police Department and the ATF that was the result of a BCSO burglary investigation. At the hearing representatives of both agencies provided key testimony to secure a conviction, those being Detectives Duff Brumley, Matt Jenkins, Dean Beverly, and Jimmy Smith.

     At a separate hearing Dennis R. Best, age 38, entered a guilty plea to possessing a firearm in the furtherance of a drug crime.    

     When the time the arrests were made Klein and Best were officers of the Limited Few motorcycle club. They will have separate sentencing hearings in December and early January.