Local Woman Sentenced for Harboring a Fugitive

 United States Attorney Richard Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Sarah Elaine Braden, 34, of Saraland, was sentenced this week in federal court on one count of harboring a fugitive.  Testimony from the sentencing hearing on Tuesday established that Braden harbored the father of her child when United States marshals were seeking to arrest him on methamphetamine charges.  Braden pled guilty to the charge in July of 2017. 

 United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Braden to 37 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.  Braden will undergo treatment for drug abuse while in prison and as a condition of her supervised release.  No fine was imposed, but the judge ordered that Braden pay the $100 special mandatory assessment. 

The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, and the Saraland Police Department.  It was prosecuted in the United States Attorney’s Office by Assistant United States Attorney Gloria Bedwell.
 
 A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama at http://www.justice.gov/usao/als/