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Date: 10-01-2021
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Case Number: 18-CR-239
Judge: Joanna Seybert
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Kings County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Brooklyn, NY: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distributing cocaine and the unlawful use of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking in August 2017.
On May 30, 2017, Ira Hall, age 33, sold a quantity of fentanyl to a coconspirator who then provided the fentanyl to the victim, who suffered a fatal overdose. In August 2017, while investigating the overdose death, detectives of the Glen Cove Police Department arrested Hall after he sold cocaine in a Taco Bell parking lot while carrying a loaded .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. A search warrant of Hall’s residence the following day led to the seizure of additional rounds of .38 caliber ammunition.
The government’s case was handled by the Office’s Long Island Criminal Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Charles N. Rose and Lara Treinis Gatz are in charge of the prosecution.
21:841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C); 18:2 and 3551 et seq. DISTRIBUTION AND POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE; 21:853(a) and 853(p)) CRIMINAL FORFEITURE ALLEGATION.
18:924(c)(1)(A)(i) and 3551 et seq. UNLAWFUL USE OF A FIREARM; 18:924(d)(1); 21:853(p); 28:2461(c)) CRIMINAL FORFEITURE ALLEGATION
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.
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