BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

LONDON — A Tomahawk man will spend 10 years in prison on federal firearm charges.

Mardy Mollett Jr., 52, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in London.

Mollett was convicted in November 2021 on two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of possession of a firearm by a drug user.

Since there was only “one criminal act,” the sentence was for one charge.

Mollett’s charges stem from an incident in March 2020 when he broke into his ex-wife Pamela Blevins’ home on Rockhouse Road and brutally attacked her and two family members.

“Judge Robert Weir followed the federal law and, due to the violent circumstances, handed down the harshest sentence he could — 120 months or 10 years,” Blevins said Friday. “The judge was fair, very tough and very thorough.”