FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN SOUTH BEND RETURN INDICTMENT

South Bend, IN—The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned the following Indictment on May 9, 2007:

JASON KATZ, age 31, of South Bend, Indiana, was charged in a three (3) count indictment for the sale and delivery of a firearm by a licensed dealer without recording in the dealer’s records, the name, age, and place of residence of the individual receiving the firearm as required by law; for making a false entry by a licensed gun dealer in a record required by law to be kept by the dealer; and for causing a licensed firearm dealer to transfer a firearm to another person before contacting the national instant criminal background check system and without verifying the identity of the transferee by examining a valid identification document containing a photograph of the transferee.

These charges were filed as the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Project Disarm Task Force, and the South Bend Police Department. This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Donald J. Schmid , who can be reached at 574-236-8287 for any inquiries.

The specific sentence in each case to be imposed upon conviction will be determined by

the judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing

Guidelines.

The United States Attorney's Office emphasized that an Indictment is merely an

allegation and that all persons charged are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in

court.

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