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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Clovis parent was convicted aft a one-day proceedings of arming her lad with her handgun and telling him not to bash thing “crazy,” according to the national Department of Justice.
On Wednesday, national prosecutors recovered 45-year-old Jawana Washington, of Fresno, blameworthy of aiding and abetting a felon’s possession of a firearm arsenic good arsenic disposing of a firearm to a felon.
According to the grounds presented astatine trial, Washington knowingly provided a firearm to her son, Taylor Washington, a documented pack subordinate and convicted felon.
Washington agreed connected March 25, 2022, to lend him her firearm, informing him not to bash thing “crazy,” to usage his ain ammunition, and not to get her sent to jail. When Taylor Washington arrived, agents reported seeing him astatine his mother’s flat complex.
During a postulation stop, officers recovered the Springfield XD-9 handgun, registered to Jawana Washington, wrong the car’s halfway console.
After the stop, national prosecutors accidental Jawana Washington exchanged messages successful which she acknowledged that Taylor Washington had her firearm - and asked for the incriminating substance messages to beryllium deleted.
Taylor Washington, a co-defendant successful this case, was separately convicted of being a felon successful possession of a firearm and sentenced by the territory tribunal to prison.
