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Posted by Robert
Rap News Network
4/8/2004 7:09:39 PM
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Mark W. Potter, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced that Dwight Grant, known throughout the rap music industry as Beanie Sigel, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to violating federal firearms and narcotics laws.
ATF agents and officers of the Philadelphia Police Department arrested Sigel in July 2003, and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The arrest stemmed from an incident that occurred in April 2003, when Sigel was found to be in possession of a firearm. Sigel had been convicted of narcotics charges in September 1995.
Siegel pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count of possessing controlled substances.
The case was investigated and prosecuted as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, President Bush's top domestic criminal justice initiative to reduce gun crime. Project Safe Neighborhoods utilizes a network of state, local, and federal law enforcement partnerships to identify, investigate, apprehend and prosecute those who illegally possess and criminally use firearms.
Sentencing has been scheduled for July 8, 2004.
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