Poplar Bluff Woman Sentenced to 40 Months for Federal Firearm Offense
Dorothy Mae Neeley was sentenced in federal court on August 19, 2026, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
2 reports on this incident · first at Aug 20, 2026, 11:16 a.m. ET
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Poplar Bluff Woman Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Firearm Possession
According to official records from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, 50-year-old Dorothy Mae Neeley of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2026, to 40 months in prison. Neeley pleaded guilty in May in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
On Dec. 3, 2025, the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force and the Butler County Sheriff’s Department executed a court-approved search of Neeley's residence after she sold a small amount of methamphetamine to an individual working with the task force. Official records state she was arrested on an unrelated warrant and handed over about 5 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine under her plea agreement.
Neeley told investigators that a firearm was located in her bedroom, where officers found a disassembled sawed-off shotgun. As a convicted felon who had been imprisoned four times, Neeley is prohibited from possessing a firearm. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Willis following an investigation by the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force and the Butler County Sheriff’s Department.
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