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ATF Tampa: Weekly News Digest
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent this bulletin at 01/05/2024 03:36 PM EST
New press releases from the field division on ATF.gov
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew has sentenced Yvens Philone, 36, of Sarasota to 10 years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. Philone had pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2023.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Antonio Jose Melean Reyes, 29, of Jacksonville today pleaded guilty to smuggling firearms from the U.S. and conspiracy to use a facility of interstate commerce in the commission of a murder-for-hire. Reyes faces a maximum...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Edward James Bess III, 29, of Fort Myers, to 33 years and four months in federal prison for carjacking causing serious bodily injury, discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and carjacking. The court...
