LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Today marks the one-year anniversary of the most tragic day in our city’s history, the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival mass shooting. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada joins our community in remembering everyone who lost their lives as a result of the senseless act committed on October 1, 2017.
Earlier today, the United States Attorney’s Office, together with the United States Marshal for the District of Nevada, held a ceremony to honor and remember the victims, survivors, and the brave first responders who risked it all. The United States Attorney’s Office remains steadfastly committed to making our community safer and preventing future tragedies.
Our community must be protected from violent criminals who terrorize our residents and visitors alike. With the support of the United States Attorney General, we have hired three additional prosecutors who are focused on identifying and prosecuting violent offenders, including those who unlawfully possess firearms, commit robberies, car-jackings, assaults, kidnappings, and murders.
The addition of new prosecutors allows the United States Attorney’s Office to target the most violent criminals, including street gangs that destroy our neighborhoods and drug trafficking organizations that peddle their poison to our children.
Critical to our violent crime reduction effort is the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and community leaders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
Project Safe Neighborhoods empowers each United States Attorney’s office to develop and implement targeted, localized violent crime reduction strategies, tailoring solutions to individual communities and the challenges they face.
Recently, four MS-13 gang members, Josue Diaz-Orellana, Luis Reyes-Castillo, David Perez-Manchame, and Miguel Torres-Escobar, were arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a rival gang member whose body was found on federal property in southern Nevada. The maximum statutory penalty is 20 years in prison for the assault charge and life imprisonment for both the kidnapping and the discharging of a firearm count.
Other notable cases include Uriah Crain, a Las Vegas felon, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in two violent armed carjackings that resulted in injury to two victims. Samual Lane Donesing and Jaemillah Eagans, both of Las Vegas, were indicted for possession of more than 300 stolen firearms belonging to a Federal Firearms Licensee. Donesing is also charged with felon in possession of a firearm. The maximum statutory penalty is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.
Joseph Michael Gill, a former DEA Supervisory Special Agent in Tucson, Arizona, pleaded guilty to illegally selling firearms without a Federal Firearms License. He faces the maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Omar Qazi, a Las Vegas felon, was convicted by a jury of illegal possession of a firearm. He faces the maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Connor Woods and Michael Miller, both of Santa Rosa, California, were each sentenced to 13 years in prison for robbing a Reno convenience store at gunpoint.
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Key Facts
- State: Nevada
- Category: Organized Crime|Violent Crime|Weapons
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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