Convicted Felon Gets 8 Years for Having Ammunition

From the U.S. Attorney:

Man Sentenced to More Than Eight Years in Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Ammunition

CHICAGO — A man involved in a shooting incident in a Chicago suburb has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for illegally possessing ammunition.

LAVOYCE BAYS was charged with illegally possessing four cartridges of .40-caliber ammunition on June 15, 2019, in Markham, Ill.  Bays was involved in a dispute with a man and others at a party and later saw the man at a gas station in the south suburb. 

As the man attempted to drive away from the gas station, Bays fired multiple shots and wounded him. 

The victim survived the shooting. 

Law enforcement recovered ammunition casings from the crime scene, which led to the federal charges.

Bays, 32, of Markham, pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of illegal possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.  He had previously been convicted in state court of a felony criminal offense and was not legally allowed to possess ammunition or a firearm. 

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman on Friday imposed a 102-month federal prison sentence.  Judge Coleman found that, in addition to illegally possessing the ammunition, the government met its burden in proving Bays possessed a firearm and committed the shooting at the gas station, conduct which supported an enhanced sentence.

The sentence was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and Kristen de Tineo, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  The Markham Police Department provided valuable assistance.  The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Albert Berry III.

Holding illegal firearm possessors accountable through federal prosecution is a centerpiece of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction strategy.  In the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Attorney Lausch and law enforcement partners have deployed the PSN program to attack a broad range of violent crime issues facing the district, particularly firearm offenses.


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Convicted Felon Gets 8 Years for Having Ammunition — 7 Comments

  1. 13%’r on the loose. How about the black pedophile sympathizer that the Turnip wants for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court? It was fun to watch all the white folk on the judiciary committee tiptoe around that fact lest they be called racist. Republicans don’t have the pelotas to do what the lib slime did to Trump’s nominees. Pathetic. And we have the pleasure of our resident idiot Dick Durbin running the show. Oh, never mind. Elections are on the up and up in IL. Mail in voting and ballot harvesting and Dominion and ES$S.

    LOL

  2. Lavoyce Bayes – no picture necessary.

    If affirmative action Jackson becomes the next member of the Supreme Court, more

    BLM mayhem will ensue.

    Be ready, be armed.

  3. JT, you must mean Affirmative Action Jackson.

    The cuck called Paul Ryan, a relative of Jackson’s through marriage, is shilling for her.

    Here’s a confirmation hearing question neither Lady Lindsey Graham or the other GOP cuckservatives will date to ask:

    Q: What does HRM Judge Jackson think of the racial and gender criteria of her own nomination? (The Supreme Court has ruled that the kind of racial and gender discrimination that President Biden resorted to in selecting her sorry butt is unconstitutional. )

  4. Why did the US atty get into this state case.

    Wouldn’t Smollett fauner Foxx prosecute?

    Where’s the federal jurisdiction?

  5. Lopez, quit censoring my posts!

    Censor your bedbugs Mellow Monk and Martin for stupidity.

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