A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for being in possession of a firearm while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
Jakerrius Jachun Gill, 23, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on December 27, 2022, by United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard to a term of 36 months’ imprisonment following his conviction for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance who possessed firearms.
According to court documents, on June 2, 2021, Gill was contacted by an officer with the Lincoln Police Department (LPD) after the officer detected the odor of marijuana coming from a car in which the defendant had been riding earlier. Marijuana was located in the car, along with pills that had the appearance and markings of Oxycodone. The pills were later discovered to be counterfeit and did not contain any controlled substances.
Gill admitted to having purchased the pills from a woman near the area of 27th and Dudley Streets in Lincoln, according to investigators.
On July 11, 2021, Gill was driving a vehicle when he was stopped by an LPD officer. The officer detected the odor of burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle and found a Glock model 22, .40 caliber handgun concealed underneath the floor mat on the driver’s side of the vehicle.
A search warrant was executed at the defendant’s residence in Lincoln on November 16, 2021, and another on January 13, 2022, yielding drug paraphernalia, Oxycodone pills, and marijuana.
The case was investigated by the Lincoln Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and was part of Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN), a program aiming to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
Jakerrius Jachun Gill pleaded guilty to the offense on September 20, 2022. After completing his prison sentence, he will serve three years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
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Key Facts
- State: Nebraska
- Category: Violent Crime|Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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