FBI News:ALBUQUERQUE ― Shane Mann, 31, of Roswell, was sentenced Oct. 18 in Federal Court in Las Cruces, to 84 months in prison for violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Mann will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive arrested Mann in Feb. 2018, on a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition Aug. 9, 2017, in Chaves County.
According to the complaint, law enforcement officers found multiple firearms and ammunition, and drug paraphernalia in Mann’s residence while executing a state search warrant. Mann was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because of his prior felony convictions for shooting from a motor vehicle, aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, and possession of a controlled substance.
May 15, 2018, Mann pled guilty to a felony information charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. In entering the guilty plea, Mann admitted that Aug. 9, 2017, law enforcement officers found firearms and ammunition in his residence, including a loaded handgun that was under a pillow in the bed in which Mann was laying, during the execution of the warrant. Mann acknowledged that he was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because of his status as a convicted felon.
This case was investigated by the Roswell office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Roswell Police Department and the HIDTA Chaves County Metro Narcotics Task Force. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred J. Perez of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.
The HIDTA Chaves County Metro Narcotics Task Force is comprised of investigators from the Roswell Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and the Chaves County Sherriff’s Office. The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program was created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. HIDTA is a program of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) which provides assistance to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States and seeks to reduce drug trafficking and production by facilitating coordinated law enforcement activities and information sharing.
