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Date: 03-08-2022
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Judge: Brian J. Davis
Court: United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Duval County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
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Description: Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for possessing firearms while he was subject to a domestic violence injunction.
In September 2021, a Special Agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives received information that Andrew Carl Fulda, age 44, of Jacksonville, might possess firearms despite being prohibited by a domestic violence injunction. The agent verified Fulda’s prohibited status by reviewing the injunction, which informed Fulda that it would be a federal criminal felony offense for him to possess firearms or ammunition while subject to the injunction. The agent also observed that, in April 2020, Fulda had executed an affidavit attesting that he had turned over all of his firearms to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO). The agent also obtained records showing that Fulda had registered multiple silencers in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record but had not surrendered the silencers to JSO.
Upon further investigation, the agent identified a residence where Fulda had moved his firearms safe and obtained a federal search warrant for the residence. Upon executing the search warrant, the agent located the firearms safe, which contained multiple handguns and a silencer that was not registered to Fulda. Also in the room with the firearms safe were an unregistered short-barreled rifle, additional firearms and silencers, and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Laura Cofer Taylor.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 37 months in prison. He was also ordered to forfeit two rifles, a carbine, two pistols, two revolvers, nine silencers, and 4,435 rounds of ammunition.
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