Defendant Sentenced To 73 Months On Gun Charge

United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Quy Ngoc Nguyen, 25, of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today by United States District Judge Callie V. S. Granade to 73 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a felon.  The judge ordered that Nguyen serve a three-year term of supervised release upon completing his term of imprisonment and that he pay a $100 mandatory special assessment.  Nguyen was arrested in March 2014 by Mobile police officers for committing several burglaries.  He was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2014 for possessing a revolver during the burglaries, for which he received state court sentences of imprisonment.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Sinan Kalayoglu.