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Date: 01-06-2023
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United States of America v. Willie Glenn
Case Number: 1:21-cr-00748
Judge: John Robert Blakey
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Cook County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a machine gun.
WILLIE GLENN, 25, of Chicago, illegally possessed the firearm on June 21, 2021, while sitting in the driver’s seat of a stolen Infiniti sedan in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The .40-caliber handgun was equipped with a conversion device known as a “Glock switch” or “auto sear,” making it capable of automatically firing more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger. Glenn had previously been convicted in state court of a felony firearm offense and was prohibited by federal law from possessing the gun. Defendant was accused of being a member of a Chicago street gang and partipated in a shootout with rival gang member on a city sidewalk.
U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey on Dec. 20, 2022, sentenced Glenn to 57 months in federal prison. In addition to the illegal firearm possession, Judge Blakey found that Glenn fired a shot during a shootout with rival gang members on Dec. 22, 2018. A man in the defendant’s group was wounded in the shootout, which occurred on a sidewalk in the East Beverly neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
The sentence was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Robert W. “Wes” Wheeler, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI, and David Brown, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Mulaney.
Holding illegal firearm possessors accountable through federal prosecution is a centerpiece of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction strategy. In the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Attorney Lausch and law enforcement partners have deployed the PSN program to attack a broad range of violent crime issues facing the district, particularly firearm offenses.
VIOLENT CRIME/DRUGS/MACHINE GUN
Outcome: The defendant pleaded guilty to count(s) two of the Indictment. Count(s) one of the Indictment dismissed on the motion of the United States. The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of: 57 months on Count 2 of the Indictment. The defendant is remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal. Upon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be on supervised release for a term of: 3 years as to Count 2 of the Indictment. Criminal Monetary Penalties. Schedule of Payments.
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