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Date: 06-09-2023
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Case Number: 3:22-cr-00610
Judge: Sherri A. Lydon
Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (Richland County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Columbia, South Carolina
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with stealing firearms from a licensed firearms dealer.
On March 6, 2022, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Christopher Cunningham, ate 34, of Columbia, South Carolina, and a co-conspirator broke into a retail store on Garner’s Ferry Road and stole two shotguns and two rifles by forcefully opening a display case in the sporting goods section. The City of Columbia Police Department responded, viewed the surveillance video of the incident, and collected fingerprints from the display case. Cunningham was identified from the surveillance footage, and further investigation confirmed the fingerprints collected from the display case belonged to Cunningham. Cunningham had prior convictions for burglary, grand larceny, malicious injury to personal property, and multiple shopliftings.
This case was prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the City of Columbia Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lamar J. Fyall is prosecuting the case.
18:922(u), 924(a)(2), and 18:2 STEALING A FIREARM FROM A LICENSED DEALER with Forfeiture Allegations
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Outcome: Defendant was committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a term of Fifty-Seven (57) months. Upon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be on supervised release for a term of Three (3) years. The defendant must comply with the mandatory and standard conditions of release as well as additional conditions. A special assessment of $100 is due immediately.
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