Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has
sentenced DaQuan Brooks (23, St. Petersburg) to 10 years in federal prison for
knowingly possessing cocaine base, also known as “crack cocaine,” with the
intent to distribute it, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug
trafficking activity. Brooks pleaded guilty on February 24, 2017.
According to court documents, on August 8, 2016, Pasco
County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Brooks on an outstanding arrest
warrant for charges of domestic battery by strangulation. Within plain view
inside Brooks’s car, deputies observed a firearm. A further search of the car
revealed approximately 45 grams of cocaine base in a plastic bag, along with a
razor blade, which is commonly used to carve up chunks of cocaine base for
distribution. As a previously convicted felon, Brooks is prohibited from
possessing a firearm or ammunition under federal law.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. It was
prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Michael M. Gordon and Michael
V. Leeman.
This is another case prosecuted as a part of the Department
of Justice’s “Project Safe Neighborhoods” Program - a nationwide, gun-violence
reduction strategy. Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow, along
with Daryl R. McCrary, Special Agent in Charge, ATF, is coordinating the
Project Safe Neighborhoods effort here in the Middle District of Florida in
cooperation with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials.
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