Posted on 10/09/2020 8:08:55 AM PDT by ransomnote
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marcos D. Guzman, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee, possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and fraudulent representations about the receipt of military medals, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Guzman was also ordered to pay $41,500 in restitution to August Chinappi, former owner of Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies.
“Guzman is the opposite of a hero,” stated U.S. Attorney Kennedy. “The heartless crimes that he and his co-conspirators committed continue to bring harm and wreak havoc in our community as the guns that they stole and sold on our streets almost inevitably end-up in the hands of those who acquire them for criminal purposes. The crimes they committed are acts of treason against the safety and well-being of our community.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Harvey, who handled the case, stated that the defendant, along with co-defendants Dakota Sarfaty and Luis D. Marcano-Agosto, broke into Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies, a gun store on West Ridge Road in Spencerport, NY, in the early morning hours of August 16, 2018. Defendant Sarfaty entered the basement through a hole in the wall and, together with Guzman and Marcano-Agosto, stole approximately 87 firearms, most of which were handguns. Many of the firearms were sold on the streets of Rochester.
In April 2019, Guzman pleaded guilty for his role in the gun story burglary. The defendant then lied to the U.S. Probation Office about his military service and being awarded two Purple Hearts in order to try to get a lower sentence on his pending firearms offenses. Specifically, Guzman lied about serving in the United States National Guard, being deployed to Iraq for 18 months, and receiving two Purple Hearts for saving another soldier on the battlefield in Iraq. The defendant provided photographs to the U.S. Probation Office that purported to show the two Purple Heart certificates. The Purple Heart certificates were fake.
Co-defendants Dakota Sarfaty and Luis D. Marcano-Agosto were previously convicted for their roles in the gun store burglary. Sarfaty was sentenced to serve 175 months in prison, while Marcano-Agosto is awaiting sentencing.
The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge John B. Devito, New York Field Division; the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Todd Baxter; the Rochester Police Department, under the direction of Acting Chief Mark Simmons; the VA Office of Inspector General, Criminal Investigations Division, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Algieri; and the Yates County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Ron Spike.
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I bought a few from Augie over the years.
“And Lying About Military Medals.”
What a shock. A guy lies about himself right as he is being sentenced for gun theft. He could have said he is Napoleon.
The gun store mentioned has been burglarized 7 times since 2007 and the thieves came in through a hole in the wall. Sounds more like self serve than theft. The cops closed the store and took the “merchandise” to protect it. If they check the serial numbers they were probably from their lockdown armory and were bought by the gun store off the street. The “thieves” were just returing them to their rightful owners.
rwood
Please, no more ‘reports’ of DOJ shirking their duties by picking low-hanging fruit instead of assault on the U.S. Constitution by globalists Democrats.
Barr should offer up indictments for the Russia Hoax on Monday, or tender his resignation.
lease, no more ‘reports’ of DOJ shirking their duties by picking low-hanging fruit instead of assault on the U.S. Constitution by globalists Democrats.
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There are some on FR who like to portray arrests and convictions of criminals as failure. It seems you’re one of them.
There are separate divisions of attorneys working on cases. Separate attorneys are working on the coup so others are working on crimes elsewhere. Although it seems like it at times, not all crime is restricted to D.C.
Really, I wouldn’t want all criminal prosecution to stop for the rest of the nation while the President dismantles the deep state - look what happens in cities where criminal prosecution halts. I don’t want the nation to become the new Portland or Seattle CHOP.
He’s better off pretending to be John Kerry and throw the medals at the White House.
“He’s better off pretending to be John Kerry and throw the medals at the White House.”
Not quite the same, but close. Kerry actually was awarded his medals, even though he didn’t win them, and threw someone else’s over the white house fence. Should we blame the people that made the medals for Kerry’s efforts? Seems fair (needed for appearance sake) if you’re liberal.
rwood
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