OAKLAND — Almost two years after Oakland police Officer Tuan Le was gunned down whereas pursuing suspects in a sequence of armed burglaries at a marijuana develop facility, 9 individuals are in custody and going through a slew of federal expenses, prosecutors stated.
Seven of the defendants — Allen Brown, Sebron Russell, Marquise Cooper, Janiero Sales space, Jowaun Jones, Shawn McGee and Salvador Munguia — are charged with conspiring to distribute, possessing with intent to distribute and trying to own with intent to distribute greater than 100 marijuana crops, in response to the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace.
Brown and Russell are additionally charged with discharging and brandishing a firearm in reference to a drug-trafficking crime.
The remaining defendants — Jasmine Kumar and Felicia Sanders — are charged with accent after the very fact.
All of them made their preliminary appearances Thursday in U.S. District Courtroom in San Francisco.
The fees stem from three armed burglaries of a marijuana develop facility at 499 Embarcadero between the late night hours of Dec. 28 and the early morning hours of Dec. 29, 2023, in response to an indictment filed Nov. 20 and unsealed Thursday.
The indictment alleges Brown, Russell, Cooper and an unnamed co-conspirator organized and carried out the burglaries. In addition they recruited Sales space, Jones, McGee and Munguia for the ultimate housebreaking, which occurred round 4 a.m., prosecutors stated.
Greater than 100 marijuana crops have been allegedly stolen from the power, prosecutors stated.
Le and his associate have been among the many officers dispatched to the third housebreaking. The pair, who have been working undercover on the time, arrived to search out the suspects leaving the power.
The unnamed co-conspirator pointed a black pistol on the officers’ unmarked truck and acquired into an Infiniti, which was amongst a number of suspect automobiles that then left the scene, in response to the indictment. Prosecutors recognized Brown as the motive force of the Infiniti.
Le and his associate adopted one of many suspect automobiles, a Chevrolet Malibu, alongside Embarcadero. As they approached the on-ramp to southbound Interstate 880, Brown pulled behind the officers and the unnamed co-conspirator, who was within the entrance passenger seat of the Infiniti, fired greater than 20 photographs, the indictment alleges.
Le was hit within the head and later died of his accidents at an space hospital, prosecutors stated.
Following Le’s loss of life, Kumar, the shooter’s girlfriend, and Sanders, the shooter’s mom, helped him elude authorities, together with by furnishing him with a one-way aircraft ticket, prosecutors stated.
If convicted of their respective expenses, Brown and Russell resist life in jail; Cooper, Sales space, Jones, McGee and Munguia as much as 40 years in jail; and Kumar and Sanders as much as 15 years in jail.
Among the defendants are scheduled to seem for bail proceedings early subsequent week.
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