A Woburn, Massachusetts man has been sentenced in federal court for being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of firearms.
On January 29, 2021, Sauma Brata Deb, 27, attempted to sell a firearm to the Kittery Trading Post. When he was arrested, two firearms were recovered from him and additional items of drug-use paraphernalia were recovered from his car.
According to court records, between March 6, 2020, and November 16, 2020, Deb was arrested on five separate occasions in either New Hampshire or Massachusetts. During each of these arrests, drugs or drug-use paraphernalia (or both) were recovered from him.
It is against federal law for unlawful users of drugs to possess firearms.
U.S. District Judge George Z. Singal sentenced Deb to 12 months and one day in prison and two years of supervised release. Deb pleaded guilty on August 5, 2021.
The Maine and New Hampshire offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Kittery Police Department investigated the case as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative.
PSN is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community leaders and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.
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Key Facts
- State: Maine
- Category: Weapons
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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