Youngstown figures into U.S. Attorney’s illegal firearms indictments

Youngstown figures into U.S. Attorney’s illegal firearms indictments

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed 124 illegal firearms indictments in the first half of this year, U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced.

“Our office and law enforcement partners continue to work around the clock the enforcing our nation’s firearms laws,” Dettelbach said. “We are on pace to file more firearms indictments than ever before.

“While we will continue to lock up the worst of the worst, who are forbidden from having guns but get them anyway, we must also continue to work to find systemic solutions to curbing the epidemic of gun violence,” Dettelbach said.

Broken down by geography in the district, the most indictments filed came out of the Cleveland office, with 53. That was followed by the Youngstown office (43), Toledo office (16) and Akron office (12).

There were 73 defendants sentenced last year for firearms crimes and the average sentence was nearly six years in prison (71.6 months).