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Date: 02-06-2023
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United States of America v. Darvis Dean Arnett, Jr.
Case Number: 5:21-cr-00333
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Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma City
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.
On December 14, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Arnett charging him with being a prior convicted felon illegally in possession of a firearm. On February 15, 2022, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Arnett with three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On April 8, 2022, Arnett pleaded guilty to the three-count superseding indictment.
Public records reflect that on March 14, 2021, the Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) responded to a shots-fired call at a Hampton Inn. During a verbal altercation between Darvis Dean Arnett, Jr., age 25, of Oklahoma City, his two female accomplices, and unknown individuals, Arnett retrieved a handgun from a vehicle, fired one round into the air and two more rounds toward the male with whom he was fighting. Arnett was arrested during a traffic stop a short while later along with his two female accomplices. The firearm was discovered in the trunk of the vehicle.
Additionally, on May 3, 2021, the Edmond Police Department responded to a shots-fired call in a residential neighborhood. Arnett was seen on surveillance video firing more than 30 rounds of ammunition from a firearm fitted with a high-capacity drum magazine. Pursuant to a search warrant, police located the gun in a clothes hamper in Arnett’s parent’s bedroom.
Lastly, on November 11, 2021, Arnett’s ex-girlfriend came home and discovered her front door had been kicked in. Soon after she called 911 to report the burglary, Arnett showed up and tried to force his way into her apartment. She and one of her female friends were able to hold the door shut and she again called 911. When he could not get into the apartment, Arnett went to the parking lot where he fired the gun three times into the air. OCPD officers responding to this call heard three gunshots from the area of the apartment complex. Arnett was later arrested at his parent’s home in Edmond. Prior to Arnett’s arrest, his father gave police the firearm Arnett had hidden in the attic.
Federal law prohibits prior convicted felons from possessing firearms or ammunition. Prior to his arrest, Arnett had been convicted of at least three felonies out of Oklahoma County, including instances of robbery with a firearm and burglary in the first degree in CF-2015-2755, CF-2015-5969, and CF-2015-8233.
On Monday, January 30, 2023, U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Friot sentenced Arnett to serve a total of 216 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. In announcing the sentence, Judge Friot noted the nature and circumstances of the offense, including Arnett’s criminal history.
This case is the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the Oklahoma City Police Department, and the Edmond Police Department, with assistance from the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David R. Nichols, Jr., the case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a Department of Justice program to reduce violent crime. In October 2017, the Department announced the reinvigoration of Project Safe Neighborhoods and directed U.S. Attorney’s Offices to develop crime-reduction strategies that incorporate lessons federal law enforcement has learned since the program’s launch in 2001.
18:924(d) & 28:2461(c) CRIMINAL FORFEITURE
(0s)
18:922(g)(1) FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
(1s-3s)
Outcome: Defendant is sentenced to custody of Bureau of Prisons for a term of 216 months, consisting of 120 months as to Count 1s and 96 months as to each of Counts 2s and 3s, the terms as to Counts 2s and 3s to be served concurrently with each other but consecutively to the term as to Count 1s; Supervised release 3 years, consisting of 3 years as to each of Counts 1s-3s, all such terms to run concurrently
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