Morgan is prohibited below federal legislation from ever possessing a firearm because of his earlier felony convictions for felony recklessness and felony recklessness with a harmful weapon.
INDIANAPOLIS – Bradley Morgan, 24, of Kokomo, Indiana, has been sentenced to 68 months in federal jail after pleading responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Based on court docket paperwork, in March of 2021, investigators with the Kokomo Police Division Violent Crimes Job Power started an investigation into Bradley Morgan after turning into conscious of Instagram posts by Morgan, exhibiting him pointing firearms on the digital camera. Morgan was recognized to be a convicted felon, on probation, and had an energetic warrant on the time of the invention.
On April 14, 2021, investigators obtained and executed a search warrant at Morgan’s East Taylor Avenue residence in Kokomo. Throughout the search, investigators discovered Morgan hiding within the bed room closet. In the identical bed room, investigators positioned a amount of managed substances, a .40 caliber Glock with a 23-round capability prolonged journal, and a 9mm Smith & Wesson.
Morgan is prohibited below federal legislation from ever possessing a firearm because of his earlier felony convictions for felony recklessness and felony recklessness with a harmful weapon in Howard County.
“A number of convictions for violent crimes weren’t sufficient to persuade this offender to cease carrying a lethal weapon,” stated U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Indiana, Zachary A. Myers. “The intense federal jail sentence imposed right here ought to ship a message to residents returning to the group from custody: for those who select to own a gun you’ll go proper again to jail. Our workplace will proceed to associate with the ATF and native process forces in Kokomo and all throughout our district to make sure that essentially the most harmful armed offenders are taken off our streets.”
“That is one other profitable collective investigative effort between federal and native legislation enforcement businesses to scale back violent crime in our group. The devoted women and men of the Kokomo Police Division, Howard County Sheriff’s Division, Indiana State Police, and our federal companions will constantly work collectively to do no matter is important to prosecute violent crime offenders and make our communities safer for all law-abiding residents,” stated Chief of Kokomo Police, Doug Stout.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Kokomo Police Division Violent Crimes Job Power investigated this case. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Courtroom Decide James R. Sweeney II.
U.S. Lawyer Myers thanked Assistant United States Lawyer Corbin Houston, who prosecuted this case.
This case is a part of Mission Protected Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of legislation enforcement and the communities they serve to scale back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. On Might 26, 2021, the Division launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN based mostly on these core ideas: fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist stop violence from occurring within the first place, setting centered and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.
