The US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Center District of Florida introduced the sentencing of a Mexican Nationwide to federal jail for possessing a firearm whereas unlawfully in the US. Under is the official assertion:
Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Decide Wendy Berger has sentenced Jose Cruz Cienega-Gaona (41, Mexico) to one yr and at some point in federal jail for possessing a firearm whereas unlawfully in the US. Cienega-Gaona entered a responsible plea in November 2024.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, in Could 2024, brokers with the U.S. Customs and Border Safety started an investigation into Cienega-Gaona. By their investigation, brokers decided that Cienega-Gaona is a local and citizen of Mexico. Cienega-Gaona had been faraway from the US in 2006 and 2019 after it was decided he was illegally in the US.
On July 9, 2024, brokers spoke with Cienega-Gaona at a gasoline station close to his residence and he was arrested for being illegally in the US. Whereas interviewing Cienega-Gaona, brokers discovered that he had weapons in his residence. Brokers executed a search warrant at Cienega-Gaona’s residence and located 4 weapons and ammunition. As a result of Cienega-Gaona was in the US illegally, he was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition beneath federal regulation.
This case was investigated by U.S. Customs and Border Safety, Homeland Safety Investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Lawyer Elisibeth Adams.
This case is a part of Mission Protected Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of regulation enforcement and the communities they serve to scale back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. On Could 26, 2021, the division launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN based mostly on these core rules: fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist forestall violence from occurring within the first place, setting centered and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.
