Grand Jury - December 2020

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 5 unsealed Indictments charging 7 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

*          Josephine Alexis Baker, age 22, of Winnebago, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm on November 24, 2020.  The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. 

*          Bryan Kyriss, age 57, is charged with felon in possession of a firearm on November 11, 2020.  The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.     

*          Kaleb A. Johnson, age 24, of Omaha, is charged in a two-count Indictment.  Count I charges the defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm on or about February 12, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.  Count II charges the defendant with possession (or sale) of a stolen firearm on or about February 12, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.

*          Jaime Vazquez Pimentel, a/k/a Alexander Rodriguez Perez, a/k/a David Gutierrez, a/k/a Eliseo Acocal-Techaltz, age 37, is charged with illegal reentry after deportation on or about November 25, 2020.  The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.

*          Xinyu Zhou, age 21, Yuan Gao, age 19, and Arian Esfandiari, age 18, are charged with attempted Hobbs Act robbery on December 14, 2020 and December 15, 2020.  The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for each defendant