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Date: 04-27-2022
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Case Number: 4:21-cr-00041-DGK
Judge: Greg Kays
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Jackson County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney: Craig Divine
Description: Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug trafficking.
On Aug. 4, 2021, Carreon L. Brown, age 20, was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, one count of distributing marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, and two counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
Brown admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Clay County, Mo., from Jan. 9, 2020, to Feb. 10, 2021. During that time, he was in possession of two firearms – a Glock .45-caliber handgun and a Glock 10mm handgun.
Undercover ATF agents purchased marijuana from Brown on several occasions. Three of those undercover purchases occurred in January 2020 at a residence near Golden Oaks Education Center, a public school for special education students. The investigation paused due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, and the agents did not conduct any additional undercover purchases in 2020.
When Brown met two individuals on Oct. 30, 2020, to sell marijuana, they attempted to rob him. Brown exchanged gunfire with one of the men as Brown fled. Both Brown and one of the customers sustained gunshot wounds during the exchange. During the investigation into that incident, Kansas City police officers found the Glock .45-caliber handgun in Brown’s apartment. According to court documents, the weapon was test-fired and entered into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), which revealed presumptive matches to multiple firearm incidents, including an aggravated assault on April 26, 2020; an aggravated assault on May 1, 2020; a homicide on June 26, 2020; an aggravated assault on Sept. 8, 2020; and recovered shell casings on Oct. 29, 2020.
Given renewed concern that Brown was involved in firearm violence in the Kansas City metropolitan area, an undercover ATF agent purchased marijuana from Brown on three more occasions in February 2021. On Feb. 10, 2021, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Brown’s apartment. Officers found the loaded Glock 10mm handgun with an extended magazine and ammunition. Officers also found 20.64 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $1,592 in cash.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Byron H. Black. It was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department.
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA
(1)
VIOLENT CRIME/DRUGS/MACHINE GUN
(8)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison.The defendant pleaded guilty to Counts 1, 3, 8, and 10 on August 4, 2021. The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of 18 months as to each of Counts 1 and 3, the counts to run concurrently with each other; 60 months custody on Count 8, consecutive to all other counts; and 60 months custody on Count 10, consecutive to all other counts, for a total term of 138 months. Upon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be on supervised release for a term of 3 years on Count 1, 4 years on Count 3, and 5 years on each of Counts 8 and 10, all terms to run concurrently, for a total of 5 years. MPA $400. No fine. No restitution.
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