By Carol Robinson
Alabama Media Group, Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Panama City man has been sentenced to seven more years in prison for the assault of a federal officer in Alabama.
Middle District U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin on Tuesday announced the sentence for 42-year-old Elvis Mark Hartrick. He pleaded guilty in April to assaulting a corrections officer with a deadly weapon.
The attack happened in September 2017 while Hartrick was an inmate at Federal Prison Camp at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery. Franklin said the prison camp staff received information about the location of contraband near a secluded fence line on the prison grounds. When they went to investigate, the staff discovered three packages so they waited until someone showed up to retrieve them.
Hartrick and another inmate, 29-year-old Marvin Nathaniel Mobley, Jr., also of Florida, arrived at the scene in a work truck. After retrieving the packages and placing them on the back of the truck, Hartick and Mobley got back into the vehicle.
The correctional officer, who was unarmed, ordered Hartrick and Mobley to stop. Hartrick, who was driving the vehicle, ignored the command and accelerated the truck directly at the officer who was standing in the middle of the narrow roadway. Realizing that Hartick was not stopping, the officer jumped quickly out of the truck’s path to avoid being struck by the vehicle. The truck was later stopped by additional correctional staff.
Franklin said the packages contained various items including cell phones, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and alcohol. Inmate Mobley received a two-month sentence for possession of contraband.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Prisons. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Howard prosecuted the case.
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