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Date: 07-28-2023
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Case Number: 0:22-cr-00297
Judge: Donovan W. Frank
Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in St. Paul
Defendant's Attorney: Andrew Irlbeck
Description: St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal possession of a machine gun and distribution of methamphetamine.
In the spring of 2022, the FBI began investigating Darrian Mitchell Nguyen, 50, based on a tip from a Confidential Human Source (CHS) that Nguyen was in possession of explosive devices, firearms, and methamphetamine, and had expressed a desire to join the Three Percenter militia group, a loosely organized anti-government extremist movement. According to the CHS, Nguyen kept weapons, including rifles, shotguns, handguns, and pipe bombs, in “secret” rooms built within the walls of his residence. Nguyen was also manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine from his residence. On August 23, 2022, during a meeting at the defendant’s residence, Nguyen sold the CHS 7.1 grams of methamphetamine for $300.
According to court documents, to correct a debt owed to the defendant, Nguyen asked the CHS to provide him with firearms, specifically a short-barreled rifle equipped with an auto sear. Through text messages, Nguyen arranged to meet with the CHS to receive four auto sears and a short-barreled rifle equipped with an auto sear. At the arranged meeting on October 4, 2022, after Nguyen took possession of the machine gun and the auto sears, law enforcement arrested Nguyen and executed a search warrant at his residence. Law enforcement recovered the auto sears and machine gun, as well as an additional 22 firearms from a hidden room inside the residence, including an unregistered short-barreled shotgun.
Nguyen pleaded guilty on March 20, 2023, to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a machine gun. Nguyen was sentenced yesterday before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank.
This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew R. Winter and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Manda M. Sertich.
Outcome: 08/07/2023 56 SENTENCING JUDGMENT as to Darrian Mitchell Nguyen (1), SENTENCED to Count 1, Custody of BOP for 77 months to run concurrently to count 2; 10 years supervised release to run concurrently to count 2; SENTENCED to Count 2, Custody of BOP for 77 months to run concurrently to count 1; 3 years supervised release to run concurrently to count 1; $200.00 total special assessment. Remaining count dismissed. Signed by Judge Donovan W. Frank on 8/4/2023. (ACH) (Entered: 08/07/2023)
08/07/2023 57 Statement of Reasons as to Darrian Mitchell Nguyen (Restricted Document). (cc: FLU and USA Close Out Unit) (ACH) (Entered: 08/07/2023)
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