Randall Rolison

Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt announced Monday that Randall Rolison, 61, of Jamestown, was sentenced on his conviction for first-degree promoting prison contraband, a class D felony, to two to four years in state prison to run consecutive to the lengthy prison sentences he received last year as a result of his convictions on two separate vehicular homicides.

Almost one year ago, on Feb. 26, 2024, Rolison was sentenced to a combined prison term of up to 40 years for his convictions of second-degree manslaughter 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 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. Rolison was under the influence of methamphetamine in each of those accidents.

In March 2024, after 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 him 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,” Schmidt said. “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.”