District Attorney Jason Schmidt has announced that, on March 31st, Randall Rolison, age 61, of Jamestown, was sentenced on his conviction for Promoting Prison Contraband in the First Degree, a class D felony, to 2 to 4 years in state prison to run consecutive to the lengthy prison sentences Mr. Rolison received last year as a result of his convictions on two separate vehicular homicides.
Almost one year ago, on February 26, 2024, Mr. Rolison was sentenced to a combined prison term of up to 40 years for his convictions of Manslaughter in the Second Degree for the January, 2022 hit-and-run death of 15 year old Alexis Hughan in Jamestown, and Aggravated Vehicular Homicide for the December, 2022 car accident in which Mr. Rolison ignored a stop sign in Arkwright and broadsided a pick-up truck driven by Gary and Linda Kraemer, killing Mrs. Kraemer and injuring her husband. Mr. Rolison was under the influence of methamphetamine in each of those accidents.
In March, 2024, after Mr. Rolison was sentenced by County Court on the two homicides but before he was transferred to a state facility, Corrections Officers at the Chautauqua County jail found Mr. Rolison in possession of methamphetamine following a jail visit, leading to this most recent conviction.
“I can’t think of a more horrendous example of how illegal drugs like meth have destroyed innocent lives and caused needless and profound suffering for all of us here in the County. It defies common sense to think that Mr. Rolison was on meth when he killed poor Lexi, chose to use meth again later that same year when he killed Mrs. Kraemer, and turned to meth again while in our jail before leaving for state prison. Mr. Rolison and his meth addiction have forever ruined two local families, caused so much pain to so many innocent people, and wrecked his own life. This is the scourge of drugs which has upended this County along with countless others across the state and country.
“We are indebted to our Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Officers, Criminal Investigation Division, and the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force for their work on this case. Only through tireless law enforcement can we counter the enormous influence illegal drugs has had over each and every one of us, directly and indirectly. We won’t stop fighting the good fight. Somehow, some way, we need to return to normalcy.”
