A federal grand jury in Sacramento returned a one-count indictment Thursday against at 36-year-old Vallejo man, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, a U. S. Department of Justice officials said. The indictment on the weapons charge was the second for Marquese Alvin Roberts, said U. S. Attorney Eric Grant, who made the announcement in a press statement issued Friday. Grant said court documents indicated that on May 3 Vallejo Police Department dispatchers received numerous reports of multiple gunshots heard on the 1600 block of Fairgrounds Drive. With the assistance of a California High Patrol helicopter unit and other agencies, officers investigated the reports. During the investigation, officers in the helicopter observed Roberts remove a firearm from a vehicle and conceal it in nearby bushes. They directed officers on the ground to the location, where they arrested Roberts and recovered the firearm. At the time of the offense, Roberts was on supervised release following a federal conviction in 2018 for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime, noted Grant, who leads the DOJ’s Eastern District of California. The case, part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, stems from an investigation by the Vallejo and American Canyon police departments, the CHP Air Unit, the FBI’s Solano County Violent Crimes Task Force, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Solano County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant U. S. Attorney Adrian T. Kinsella leads the prosecution. U. S. Marshals arrested Roberts on May 7 for a related supervised release violation and remains without bail in Sacramento County Jail on a federal holding order. No court dates have been scheduled, according to jail records posted on Friday. If convicted, Roberts faces a maximum prison sentence of 15 years and a $250,000 fine. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court and federal sentencing guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. Project Safe Neighborhoods, or PSN, brings together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make neighborhoods safer for everyone, added Grant.
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