{"id":12446,"date":"2015-09-21T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12446"},"modified":"2015-09-22T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:31:28","slug":"lafayette-la-man-pleads-guilty-to-shooting-at-postal-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/21\/lafayette-la-man-pleads-guilty-to-shooting-at-postal-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette, LA man pleads guilty to shooting at postal worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAFAYETTE, La.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty last week to firing a gun at a postal worker. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8129\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\" alt=\"dept-of-justice2\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David C. Sonnier, 40, Lafayette, La., pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to one count of discharging a firearm during commission of a crime of violence. According to the guilty plea, Sonnier shot a Hi Point 9 mm semi-automatic pistol on March 27, 2014 at the door of the postal worker\u2019s vehicle passing in front of Sonnier\u2019s home. The bullet passed through the driver\u2019s side door and the postal worker\u2019s pant leg before becoming lodged in the opposite side of the vehicle, which caused approximately $1,178 of damage.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnier faces up to 10 years to life in prison, five years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine and restitution.<strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>A sentencing date was not set.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the FBI and the Lafayette Police Department investigated the case.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph T. Mickel is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE, La.\u00a0\u2013 United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty last week to firing a gun at a postal worker. David C. Sonnier, 40, Lafayette, La., pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to one count of discharging a firearm during commission of a crime of violence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12458,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions\/12458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}