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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2009
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QUINCY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO BEING A FELON IN POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION
BOSTON – A Quincy man pleaded guilty yesterday to Count One of an Indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of ammunition.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Glenn N. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boston Field Division, and Police Commissioner Edward Davis of the Boston Police Department announced that EARL DESSESAURE, 44, of Quincy, MA, pleaded guilty to Count One of an Indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of ammunition.
At an earlier hearing, the Government told the court that members of the Boston Police Department Drug Control Unit, assisted by members of the Quincy Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police, searched DESSESAURE’s Quincy apartment pursuant to a search warrant and found a Smith & Wesson revolver loaded with six rounds of .357 magnum caliber ammunition and a box containing an additional 50 rounds of ammunition. DESSESAURE had been previously convicted of a felony offense making it a crime for him to possess ammunition that had crossed state lines.
DESSESAURE faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life, up to a $250,000 fine, and a term of supervised release of up to 5 years. Sentencing has been scheduled for November 17, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
The case was investigated by the Boston Police Department, the Quincy Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It is being prosecuted by Robert Richardson of Loucks’ Major Crimes Unit.
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