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Date: 03-08-2022
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Case Number: 5:21-cr-50016-TLB
Judge: Timothy L. Brooks
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (Washington County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Fayetteville, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm in conjunction with drug trafficking.
Dylan Leon Coats, age 32, was staying at a hotel in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The information received was that Coats was in possession of a large amount of methamphetamine and that he was armed with a firearm.
Detectives located Coats as he arrived and parked at the hotel. A search of the vehicle resulted in detectives locating and seizing 3 firearms, a distribution amount of methamphetamine packaged for sale, $10,646.00 in U.S. currency, drug ledgers, baggies, a digital scale and a box of ammunition. Coats is a convicted felon and is prohibited from possessing a firearm.
U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes of the Western District of Arkansas made the announcement.
The 4th Judicial District Drug Task Force investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Harris prosecuted the case.
18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) Felon in Possession of a Firearm
(1)
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i) Possession of a Firearm In Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Offense
(3)
18 U.S.C. 922(g) provides:
(g) Whoever, with the intent to engage in conduct which—
(1) constitutes an offense listed in section 1961(1),
(2) is punishable under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.), or chapter 705 of title 46,
(3) violates any State law relating to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102(6) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6))), or
(4) constitutes a crime of violence (as defined in subsection (c)(3)),
travels from any State or foreign country into any other State and acquires, transfers, or attempts to acquire or transfer, a firearm in such other State in furtherance of such purpose, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 144 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
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