On Thursday, the United States Attorney’s Office Middle District of Alabama announced that Coffee County resident Michel Glenn Saizan has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm he used in a shooting.

Saizan, a 33-year-old Enterprise resident, was convicted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to court records, law enforcement offers responded to a shooting in Daleville on Jan. 18, 2024. Witnesses alleged that Saizan and another man had been arguing and when the argument escalated, Saizan retrieved an AR-style rifle and shot the other man before fleeing the scene.

The shooting victim was not fatally injured and the next day investigators searched Saizan’s residence in Enterprise and found the rifle as well as ammunition. Saizan had previous felony convictions and is prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm or ammunition. On Dec. 10, Saizan pled guilt to being a a felon in possession of a firearm.

The case was prosecuted as a part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, which brings together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime in an effort to make neighborhoods safer for everyone. The U.S. Department of Justice reinvigorated the PSN in 2017 as a part fo the Department’s focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement, and the local community to develop effective, locally based strategies to reduce violent crime. Federal inmates are not eligible for parole. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Daleville Police Dept. and Enterprise Police Dept. investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Duraski prosecuted.