Fayetteville Man Sentenced to More than 6 Years for Gun Offense

RALEIGH – United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court yesterday, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DAIQONE MICHAEL HOFMAN, 25, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 75 months’ imprisonment, followed by a 3 year term of supervised released.

On March 21, 2019, HOFFMAN was named in a one-count Indictment in which he was charged with Felon in Possession of a Firearm.  On July 29, 2019, MALLOY pled guilty to the Indictment. 

On August 27, 2018, HOFFMAN was in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Morgantown Road and Skibo Road in Fayetteville, NC.  HOFFMAN exited the vehicle with a gun in hand and approached a vehicle that was also stopped in the adjacent lane.  HOFFMAN fired two shots at the victim vehicle before fleeing on foot.  One shot hit the driver of the other vehicle, while the other shot struck the frame of the victim’s vehicle.  Officers with the Fayetteville Police Department responded and quickly apprehended HOFFMAN after a brief pursuit.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.  Since 2017 the United States Department of Justice has reinvigorated the PSN program and has targeted violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally-based strategies to reduce violent crime. 

That effort has been implemented through the Take Back North Carolina Initiative of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. This initiative emphasizes the regional assignment of federal prosecutors to work with law enforcement and District Attorney’s Offices in those communities on a sustained basis to reduce the violent crime rate, drug trafficking, and crimes against law enforcement.  For more information about this initiative click here:  https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/tbnc. 

The Fayetteville Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) conducted the investigation in this matter.  Assistant United States Attorney Bryan M. Stephany prosecuted the case for the government.