ALBUQUERQUE – A federal jury has found Federico Lujan, 26, of Serafina, N.M., guilty on assault and firearms charges after a four-day trial, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Special Agent in Charge DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Chief Kevin Mariano of the Isleta Pueblo Tribal Police Department.
Lujan, a non-Indian man, was arrested on July 5, 2012, on a criminal complaint alleging aggravated assault charges arising out of the discharging of a rifle while threatening and menacing two Isleta Pueblo women and ten children in an Isleta Pueblo residence. Lujan subsequently was indicted and charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
The trial evidence established that on the morning of July 5, 2012, Lujan drove to the victims’ residence armed with a .22 caliber rifle loaded with a high-capacity magazine carrying almost 50 rounds of ammunition. After Lujan got out of his vehicle with the loaded rifle, one of the two adult victims peered out the window to see a stranger with a rifle standing in her yard.
While one adult victim stayed in the home to protect the ten children who were present, the other adult victim went outside to try to defuse the situation. When the victim denied knowing about the baseball cap, Lujan pointed the rifle at her, threatened to kill her, and fired his rifle again but did not hit the victim.
The jury deliberated approximately four and a half hours before returning its guilty verdict. Lujan was remanded into custody after the jury returned the guilty verdict and will remain detained pending his sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
At sentencing, Lujan faces up to 18 months in prison on each of the two aggravated assault charges. Lujan also faces a mandatory ten years in prison for discharging a firearm which must be served consecutive to any prison sentence imposed on the assault charges.
This case was investigated by the Southern Pueblos Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services and the Isleta Pueblo Tribal Police Department, with assistance from the Albuquerque office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI’s crime lab in Quantico, Va., and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark T. Baker and Holland S. Kastrin.
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Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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