Two Omaha Men Sentenced for Firearm Offenses after Jury Trial

United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Dilang N. Dat, age 31, and Jany Jock, age 29, both of Omaha, Nebraska were sentenced on January 16, 2025, in federal court in Omaha.  United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Dilang Dat to 120 months for possessing a firearm as a felon and 24 months consecutive that for violating the terms of his supervised release as a result of a prior conviction for robbery. Judge Buescher sentenced Jany Jock to 120 months for transferring a firearm to a prohibited person.  There is no parole in the federal system. After Dat and Jock are released from prison, each defendant will begin an individual 3-year term of supervised release.

On January 26, 2022, the Omaha Police Department (“OPD”) executed a search warrant at home near 47^th and Ellison Avenue, Omaha, based on reports by a concerned citizen that drugs were being sold and stored at the residence. At the time, the home was part of an on-going police investigation into gang activity based on the recent homicide of Goa Dat, a Trip Set gang member who was shot and killed in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 30, 2021. His brothers, Dilang Dat and Baling Dat, both convicted felons and Trip Set gang members, resided at the home.

Officers located distribution amounts of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, and recovered five (5) firearms in the home, one of which had been reported stolen. Two of the firearms recovered during the search were purchased by Jany Jock.  More evidence revealed that Jock has purchased other firearms that were not found in his possession. Jock gave permission to law enforcement to search his phone.  Jock’s iPhone contained several pieces of evidence, including text messages between Jock, Baling and Dilang Dat indicating a conspiracy to purchase, transfer and possess firearms. Further evidence established that Jock knew Baling Dat was a convicted felon at that time due to his communications with Baling Dat while Dat was incarcerated in the Nebraska Department of Corrections for a robbery conviction.

Dilang Dat is a convicted felon out of the District of Nebraska for robbery and was on federal supervised release at the time of his arrest.

Jany Jock and Dilang Dat were arrested along with Baling Dat and Bumatet Duop.

Following a two-week jury trial, Baling Dat, Dilang Dat, and Jany Jock were convicted on all counts against them.

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 gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

Baling N. Dat was convicted by a jury trial for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, possessing a firearm in drug trafficking and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced on January 8, 2025, to 195 months in prison.

Bumatet G. Duop pled guilty to possession of a stolen firearm and on June 7, 2023, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, consecutive to a state sentence he was serving in Woodbury County, Iowa.  He will serve a 3-year term of supervision upon his release.

This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Omaha Police Department and United States Marshals Service Omaha Metro Fugitive Task Force.