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.
Tampa, Florida – -(Ammoland.com)- A federal jury has found Victor Ricardo Grant (39, Brandon) guilty of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Grant faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years, and up to, life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 4, 2022.
Grant was initially indicted on February 4, 2020, and a superseding indictment was filed on September 28, 2021.
According to testimony presented at trial, federal agents, along with Florida local law enforcement agencies, investigated a series of credit union robberies and carjackings committed in Hillsborough County and Pinellas County in 2019. As part of the investigation, the FBI obtained a search warrant for Grant’s residence in Brandon, Florida. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and federal investigators searched Grant’s home on January 22, 2020, and found approximately 400 rounds of 7.62 caliber ammunition inside backpacks in Grant’s bedroom closet and in the attic. All of the ammunition in the backpack in the attic was loaded in magazine clips for an AK-47 assault rifle; that backpack also contained ammunition drum magazines for that type of rifle. Because of his several prior felony offense convictions, federal law prohibits Grant from possessing ammunition.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, the Pinellas Park Police Department, the St. Petersburg Police Department, and the Clearwater Police Department. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Michael Sinacore and Diego Novaes.
This case is being prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, 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.
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.
F the BATFE
Yet Hunter is still walking around.
Just government thugs bragging about armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping, and violation of rights again.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The second amendment. The atfe is a criminal, unconstitutional government terrorist organization that disavows their oath to the people, the nation and the constitution, in particular the second amendment. The atfe should be disbanded, arrested, tried and jailed for their crimes which include treason, tyranny, terrorism, theft, intimidation, assault and battery, falsifying government documents, attempted murder and murder. The second amendment gives every free American citizen the right and obligation to keep and bear arms no… Read more »
He got a life sentence that Penn state law and the judge never intended.
The tyrants advocating for, enacting, and enforcing arms laws are often the least knowledgeable about arms. I think at this point people are literally voting for the dumbest among us to control our lives. The movie Idiocracy turned out to be more of a documentary or accurate prediction of the future than a comedy.
It would be of far more interest if these BATF puff pieces were to include details about the “disabling” charges and convictioins for people like this. Did he get behind on his child support payments, was he caught driving 21 miles per hour above a ridiculously low posted speed limit? Did he sell a firearm to a life-long friend without trudging off tho the gun store to”do it right”? If he participated n an amred roobery of a convenience store, well then yes, he SHOULD be debarred theuse of arms but ONY until his “debt to society” is fully paid,… Read more »
The ammo was “was loaded in magazine clips.”
Please, please, please tell me this is not the actual language the ATF used in its press release. Your introductory paragraph suggests that’s the case, in which case we are really screwed.
But….. butt… was he also charged and convicted of any credit union robberies or carjackings?
curious minds would like to know.
Come on? “Magazine clips?”