© Copyright 2013, vLex. All Rights Reserved.
- Language
Contents in vLex United States
Explore vLex
For Professionals
For Partners
Company
Possession of Unregistered Firearm
3.568 documents for Possession of Unregistered Firearm
-
WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Richard A. Medve, a retired U.S. Postal Inspector, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James A. Moody at the federal court in Little Rock, Ark., to a one-count information charging him with possession of an unregistered firearm, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher announced today. Medve, 52, of Austin, Ark., had been a federally licensed firearms dealer since the 1980s. He came under investigation by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during an undercover operation. ATF agents then executed a search warrant at his home and found numerous unregistered firearms, including several silencers.
-
Lower mandatory minimum prison sentences imposed by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 apply retroactively to defendants who committed their crimes before the Act became law, but who were sentenced afterwards, the 3rd has ruled. The defendant in the case pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute fifty grams or more of cocaine base and the receipt and possession of an unregistered firearm.
-
A Grandview man was sentenced Wednesday to 16 1/2 years in federal prison for three firearms charges, including possession of a weapon in connection with drug trafficking. Charles Thomas Wilmer Weems pleaded guilty in October in U.S. District Court in Yakima to possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
-
Prison Terms Handed Down in Northern Judicial District of Georgia for Career Criminals ATLANTA, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several Atlanta residents were recently sentenced to serve time after being convicted on varying federal firearms and narcotic related charges, according to information received from agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). These sentences are a result of an ATF initiated undercover operation, called "ATL Blaze." Undercover agents placed themselves in positions ultimately putting the word out that they were interested in buying firearms and drugs from the criminal element. The case yielded 257 handguns, 60 rifles, 46 shotguns, and 10 short-barreled "sawed-off" shotguns taken off the streets of Atlanta. Forty-nine defen...
...3, 2011 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Denellion Daughtery, 28, received a ...
-
A proposed bill in the District that would decriminalize some gun and ammunition charges for nonresidents will send the wrong message about gun laws in the District, the city's office of the attorney general said at a hearing Monday. The bill under consideration would allow some legal gun owners who don't live in the District and are caught traveling with their guns through the city to pay a fine and be released from custody rather than go to court on charges of possession of an unregistered firearm or unlawful possession of ammunition.
-
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Joseph Riehl, San Francisco Field Division announced that David Torrado was arrested Monday in Tijuana on a warrant for illegally possessing firearms and body armor. According to a grand jury indictment, Torrado, 39, a resident of Las Vegas has been charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, and one count of the possession of body armor by a violent felon. Torrado, a United States citizen with prior felony convictions absconded to Mexico in early 2012. Agents from the ATF Las Vegas, San Diego and Tijuana Field Offices have been working together to locate and apprehend Torrado.
-
...The National Firearms Act criminalizes possession of an unregistered "fi...
-
WACO, Texas - A federal grand jury indicted an AWOL soldier Tuesday on three charges in connection with a plot to bomb Fort Hood soldiers in Texas. Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, 21, was indicted in Waco on charges of possession of an unregistered destructive device, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition by a fugitive from justice, according to federal prosecutors. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each charge if convicted.
-
VALINDA - Deputies jailed an admitted gang member on suspicion of gun charges after he ran from them late Tuesday, authorities said. Jose Gallaga, 18, of Valinda was booked on suspicion of possession of a loaded firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Steve Katz said in a written statement.
-
WHITTIER - Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a 14-year- old Whittier boy accused of bringing a loaded gun to his middle school last week. The unidentified minor was charged with possession of a gun on school grounds, possession of a firearm by an active gang member, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm by a minor, said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office.
