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Norfolk Man Sentenced for Unlawfully Possessing Firearms

NORFOLK, Va. – A Norfolk man was sentenced to 151 months in prison for unlawfully possessing ammunition that he used to shoot at someone and for unlawfully possessing a firearm in a separate incident roughly a year later.

According to court documents, on March 27, 2021, Earlon Delton Mitchell, 33, returned to the place he had been arrested in his previous case and assaulted a woman. When another woman showed up and tried to stop him, he brandished a firearm at her, so she drove away, stopped at the end of the block, and called 911. He walked into the street and shot at her several times, but missed, hitting two parked cars and leaving shell casings that were later recovered.

Almost exactly a year later, while still on federal supervised release, he went back to that same location, where police officers spotted him and tried to make contact with him. He fled, and they pursued him. While running, he threw his loaded, stolen firearm to the ground. The officers caught and arrested him, recovering the firearm, as well as 40 grams of methamphetamine and marijuana separated into three baggies, along with $115 in cash.

Mitchell was sentenced on January 18, 2023, by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which is the centerpiece of the government’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.

The defendant’s exact criminal charges are unlawful possession of ammunition and a firearm. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney William Jackson.

The location of the crime is in Norfolk, Virginia. The exact date of the crime was March 27, 2021.