WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of the following eight people convicted of drug crimes:
— Sidney Earl Johnson Jr. of Mobile, Alabama, sentenced in 1994 to life in prison
— Cathy Lee Jones of Portsmouth, Virginia, sentenced in 2003 to 21 years
— Rickey Marcell McCall of Birmingham, Alabama, sentenced in 2001 to life
— Larry Nailor of Memphis, Tennessee, sentenced in 1997 to life
— Antonio Gromyko Reeves of Kennett, Missouri, sentenced in 2004 to 15 years
— Jennifer Regenos of Muscatine, Iowa, sentenced in 2002 to 20 years
— Barbara Lammsies Scrivner of Portland, Oregon, sentenced in 1995 to 30 years
— Israel Abel Torres of Dallas, Texas, sentenced in 1998 to life
Obama granted pardons to the following twelve convicts:
— Roy Norman Auvil of Bartonville, Illinois, sentenced in 1964 in South Carolina to five years of probation for possession of an unregistered distilling apparatus
— Bernard Bryan Bulcourf of McIntosh, Florida, sentenced in 1988 to three months in a treatment center for counterfeiting Federal Reserve notes
— Steve Charlie Calamars of San Antonio, Texas, 1989 sentence amended in 1994 to 4 years for intent to manufacture methamphetamine
— Diane Mary DeBarri of Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, sentenced in 1984 to three months imprisonment for methamphetamine distribution
— Donnie Keith Ellison of London, Kentucky, sentenced in 1995 to five years for manufacture of marijuana
— John Marshall French of Clovis, California, sentenced in 1993 in South Carolina to three years of probation for conspiracy to transport a stolen motor vehicle in interstate commerce
— Ricardo Marcial Lomedico Sr. of Point Roberts, Washington, sentenced in 1969 to five years for misappropriation of bank funds by an employee
— David Raymond Mannix of Lafayette, Oregon, sentenced in 1990 by U.S. Marine Corps general court martial at Camp Pendleton, California, to 75 days confinement and reduction in rank for theft of military property
— David Neil Mercer of Grand Junction, Colorado, sentenced in 1997 in Utah to three years of probation for violation of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act
— Claire Holbrook Mulford of Flint, Texas, sentenced in 1993 to five years on methamphetamine charges,
— Brian Edward Sledz of Naperville, Illinois, sentenced in 1993 to a year probation on wire fraud
— Albert Byron Stork of Delta, Colorado, sentenced in 1987 to six months in jail or treatment for filing a false tax return
Source: The White House.
Each was convicted in their home state, except where noted.
The president ordered the commuted sentences to expire on April 15, except for Johnson and Scrivner on June 12.
