SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Maurice Darnell Jones, Jr., 22, of
Vacaville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to four
years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney
McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, on August 27, 2017, the
Vacaville Police Department received a call about an auto burglary in progress.
The caller described a male suspect fleeing in a silver sedan. Moments later,
police identified a car matching the description. When an officer tried to stop
the car, the driver fled for several blocks, and then parked his car and began
running from police. Police recovered various items in and around the car that
showed ties to Jones, including paperwork in the trunk with Jones’s name on it,
and a cellphone next to the car that was determined to be Jones’s phone. In
addition, police located a .40-caliber handgun in the area where Jones had
fled. Ammunition from the gun matched ammunition found with Jones’s belongings
in an apartment unit nearby. Jones cannot lawfully possess firearms because he
previously has been convicted of two felony offenses.
This case was the product of an investigation by the
Vacaville Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Solano
County Violent Crimes Task Force, with assistance from the Solano County
District Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy H. Delgado
prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as a 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. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reinvigorated
PSN in 2017 as part of the Department of Justice’s renewed focus on targeting
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.
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