Operation Legend's federal charges by the numbers:

Posted on: August 19, 2020 at 14:18:29 CT

Kansas City, Mo.

- Twenty defendants have been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm

- Seventeen defendants have been charged with drug trafficking

- Four defendants have been charged with being a drug user in possession of a firearm

- Six defendants have been charged with being in possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking

- Four defendants have been charged with being in possession of a firearm in furtherance of violent crime

- One defendant has been charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition

- Three defendants have been charged with armed robbery

- One defendant has been charged with carjacking

- One defendant has been charged with arson

Chicago

- Thirty-four defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses

- Twenty-six defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses

- One defendant has been charged with possession of machine gun

- One defendant has been charged with illegally dealing firearms without a license

- One defendant has been charged with the illegal sale of a firearm to a prohibited person

- One defendant has been charged with bank fraud

Albuquerque, N.M.

- Six defendants have been charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances

- Four defendants have been charged with distribution of controlled substances


- Six defendants have been charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

- Four defendants have been charged with being in possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking

- Eight defendants have been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm

- One defendant has been charged with being in possession of a stolen firearm

- Two defendants have been charged with Hobbs Act violations

- One defendant has been charged with carjacking

- One defendant has been charged with re-entry of a removed alien

Cleveland

- Twenty-two defendants have been charged with federal drug trafficking charges

- Nine defendants have been charged with federal firearms violations

- One defendant had been charged with carjacking

Detroit

- Fourteen defendants have been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm

- Two defendants have been charged with possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances

- Two defendants have been charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking

- Three defendants have been charged with receipt of a firearm while under indictment

- Four defendants have been charged with making false statement to a licensed firearm dealer

- Two defendants have been charged with carjacking

Milwaukee, Wisc.

- Eight defendants have been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm

- Five defendants have been charged with possession with intent to distribute narcotics

- Four defendants have been charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking

- Two defendants have been charged with making false statements to a licensed firearm dealer

- One defendant has been charged with possession of a firearm while being an unlawful user of narcotics

- One defendant has been charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition

- One defendant has been charged with distribution of narcotics

St. Louis

- One defendant has been charged with drug trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime following the U.S. Marshals Service’s execution of a state arrest warrant

- One defendant has been charged with robbery of an item affecting interstate commerce and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence following an undercover operation targeting a known shooter

- One defendant has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm following the execution of a federal search warrant directed toward the home of a suspected murderer

- Eleven defendants have been charged with drug-trafficking offenses

- One defendant has been charged with being a drug user in possession of a firearm

- In addition, 10 defendants have been charged with illegal re-entry of an alien in connection with a widespread drug conspiracy

Memphis, Tenn.

- One defendant has been charged with being an alien in possession of a firearm while illegally or unlawfully in the United States

- One defendant, who lives in Memphis, was charged in an out-of-district federal case with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine

- Two defendants have been charged with being unlawful users of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm and making a material false statement when acquiring a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL)

Two cases remain under seal, but the charges are as follows:

- One defendant has been charged with bank robbery

- Two defendants charged with theft from an FFL

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