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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral from Reedley was charged Thursday for carrying a firearm and having ammunition successful narration to cause trafficking, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ says a expansive assemblage returned an indictment Thursday against 41-year-old David Joseph Yama of Reedley and added charges of possession of alprazolam (known arsenic Xanax) with intent to distribute, 3 counts of being a felon successful possession of ammunition and 1 number of carrying a firearm successful narration to a cause trafficking offense.
According to tribunal documents, connected Sept. 1, 2020, officers went to a state presumption successful Clovis and reported suspicious enactment and contacted Yama and 2 of his associates.
Court documents authorities that aft a hunt of Yama's car, officers uncovered a ample magnitude of cash, ammunition, integrative baggies, vials containing fentanyl, and much than 100 alprazolam pills.
The tribunal documents authorities that a hunt of Yama's residence connected the aforesaid time revealed further controlled substances and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Several months later, tribunal documents state, successful January 2021, Yama was stopped driving the aforesaid car.
After a hunt of the car successful 2021, it resulted successful the seizure of much alprazolam pills, ammunition, and a shade gun, according to the DOJ.
The DOJ says that earlier September 2020, Yama was convicted of 5 felony cause trafficking and firearms offenses and is prohibited from possessing firearms.
If convicted connected the drug-trafficking counts, Yama faces a maximum statutory punishment of 20 years successful situation and a good of up to $1 million for each count, according to the DOJ.
