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Description: Rapid City, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of a stoke firearm.

Huya Smoke, age 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 19, 2021, and pleaded guilty on December 3, 2021. The conviction stems from Smoke knowingly being in possession of a stolen 9mm semi-automatic pistol in Rapid City in April 2021. At the time, Smoke was also under indictment in Meade County, South Dakota.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), 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 investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Rapid City Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Patterson prosecuted the case.

Smoke was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

18 U.S.C. §§ 922(j) and 924(a)(2) POSSESSION OF A STOLEN FIREARM
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, fine waived, $100 VAF.

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