Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of such crime in Indian Country on May 8, 2023.
On March 13, 2022, Jerry Segura, Jr., age 34, of Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico, drunkenly drove with his father to his girlfriend’s mother’s home on the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh to, in his words, kill himself in front of her. Instead, Segura, Jr. fired about 10 gunshots from a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun at his girlfriend’s mother’s home, including about six shots directly at his girlfriend’s pregnant daughter and her young son. Defendant then sped away from the scene with the help of his father. At the time, Segura Jr. was on state-level supervised probation.
Upon his release from prison, Segura Jr. will be subject to five years of supervised release.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Zachary Jones is prosecuting the case.
18 USC 1153 AND 113(a)(3): ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON, AN INDIAN COUNTRY CRIME.
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18 USC 924(c)(1)(A)(ii): USING AND CARRYING A FIREARM DURING AND IN RELATION TO A CRIME OF VIOLENCE, AND BRANDISHING A FIREARM IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CRIME.
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 87 months in prison.
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