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United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern
District of Alabama announces today that Tyree Arvell Monroe, Trayon Alphonse
Caulton and Walter J. Porter of Mobile were sentenced following April 2014,
guilty pleas to a charge of theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearm
dealer. On September 20, 2013, Monroe, Caulton and Porter, along with a
juvenile, entered the Quik Pawn on Cottage Hill Road and committed an armed
robbery in which they stole elven (11) firearms from the store’s inventory.
Theft from a federal firearms licensee is a violation of
Title 18, United States Code Section 922(u). Chief United States District Court
Judge William H. Steele imposed the following sentences of imprisonment: Monroe
received a sentence of 70 months; Caulton received a sentence of 57 months;
and, Porter received a sentence of 63 months. The sentences of imprisonment
will be followed by a 3 year term of supervised release.
This case was investigated by Special Agent Wade Vittitow of
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, following a referral
of the case for federal prosecution by the Mobile Police Department.
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