Music Producer Whose Long Sentence Drew Outcry Is Free Early Justin Tranter, Writer of Justin ...

​Weldon Angelos, right, holds his son Anthoney in Sandy, Utah on June 3, 2016. 

A Utah music producer who was ordered to 55 years behind bars for bringing guns to marijuana deals has been set free, after 12 years in prison and national outcry over the mandatory minimum sentencing laws that forced a federal judge to impose the lengthy term.

Weldon Angelos, 36, was freed Tuesday (May 31). He says he kept his release quiet for a few days because he wanted to spend time with his three teenage children, who were much younger when he was sentenced in 2004 at 24.

"It's amazing," Angelos told KUTV-TV on Friday at his home in Sandy, a Salt Lake City suburb. "I just keep hugging them every time I get a chance."

His lawyer says the prosecutor who charged Angelos was eventually crucial in getting his release.

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