Editors Note: The following press release is directly from ATF. Regular readers of AmmoLand News know our stance on the unaccountable Federal Agency: No comment. We invite our readers to leave their hard-hitting insights in the comments below.
Rapid City, SD – -(AmmoLand.com)- Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm was sentenced on October 28, 2021, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
Keith Looking Back, age 39, was sentenced to three years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
Looking Back was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 11, 2020, and pleaded guilty on May 26, 2021. In April 2020, Looking Back knowingly possessed a stolen SIG Sauer, model SIG MCX, 5.56 caliber semi-automatic rifle. The rifle had been stolen by other individuals from Pawn With Us in Rapid City in April 2020.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally-based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Rapid City Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Patterson prosecuted the case.
Looking Back was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
ATF is the federal law enforcement agency responsible for investigating violations of the federal firearms and explosives laws and regulations. More information about ATF and its programs can be found at www.atf.gov.
Screw the leftist ATF! The add says nothing about Looking Back (a made up name I assume) having any criminal record, or his intent for possessing the stolen rifle. As far as him pleading guilty he was probably pressured with all kinds of illegal acts by the prosecution- who in their right mind would want to possess a stolen rifle? There is one thing I know for a fact- the ATF is being controlled by the radical leftwing communists and can’t be trusted.
If he was knowingly and intentionally in possession of stolen property I have no sympathy for him
I once sat on a General Court Martial of a young PV2 who had been accused of raping a fellow (female) PV2. He was facing 20 years in Federal prison. The trial lasted four days and in the end the supposed victim declared that she had made up the charge of rape. She declared tearfully that it had been voluntary sex, that she made the whole thing up because she learned the supposed assailant had bet a case of beer with fellow soldiers that he could “nail her” to quote his testimony on the stand. The charges were dropped in… Read more »
There’s a lot of facts left out here. Did he know? Who stole it, was it in his home or in a vehicle when found? How many hands did it pass through before it got to him?
wow, could they have tried any harder to make themselves look like they saved the free world. they recovered a stolen weapon in south dakota. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally-based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime. yea right, care to show me your data.… Read more »
Bob Uecher is a man of proper wit! A reporter asked Mr Uecher, “What is the best way to catch a knuckle ball?” Bob replied, “Wait till it stops rolling.”
You can try to rosy this up by throwing around your PSN program and talking about how it’s aimed at stopping “violent crime” but it still smells like fecal matter to me. IF, and that’s a very big if, this man actually KNOWINGLY possessed stolen property then there is no “violent crime” and three years in prison is a ridiculously long sentence for that. You’ve admitted yourselves that he had no involvement in the theft of said firearm. The much more likely scenario is you threatened this man with an even ridiculously longer prison sentence of 10+ years and hundreds… Read more »
Regular readers wonder why you dignify these assholes by publishing their press releases????
The only thing I want to hear from atf is that the agency has been disbanded and their agents have been jailed or shot for violating the constitution.
I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR PRESS RELEASES……I CARE WHERE THEY KEEP THEIR SPOUSES, CHILDREN AND DOGS.
PUBLISH ALL atf / .gov EMPLOYEE / TRAITOR/ ASSHOLE HOME ADDRESSES! Stop being a tool for atf!!!!
ATF, Protecting the Politicians, Serving Ourselves. Should Looking Back have had possession of stolen property, nope, did he have reason to suspect it was stolen? There is the big question.
I gotta wonder if any charges were preferred against the female PV2 for making a “false official statement”? While in the Navy, a female Petty Officer preferred charges against me, my wife, the base Chaplain, the command executive officer and the commanding officer. An in-depth investigation found nothing to support her accusations. She later admitted that she had filed the charges because she was “mad”. Nothing happened to her.