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A Jamaican man pleaded innocent August 8 in federal court for lying about his immigration status when trying to buy a gun.
Authorities say that on June 26, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Alex Dwayne Bignall, 30, of Jamaica, with lying about his immigration status while attempting to purchase a firearm, and attempting to receive a firearm knowing that such receipt would be a felony.
Bignall entered a plea of not guilty to the charges during an arraignment on August 8 before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle. Judge Doyle ordered that Bignall be released on conditions.
According to court records, in the summer of 2023, Bignall, who did not have legal status in the United States, attempted to buy a Taurus 9mm firearm from a federal firearms licensee in Vermont. In connection with that attempted purchase, Bignall filled out a form, swearing under oath that he was not an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.
At the time of the attempted firearm purchase, Bignall lacked legal status in the United States. Weeks before he attempted to purchase the firearm, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services denied an application Bignall had submitted for immigration benefits, and informed him he was no longer authorized to remain in the United States.
Bignall faces up to 15 years if convicted.
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Categories: Federal Court Action
15 years on the taxpayer’s dime? Just send him back from whence he crawled out of.
President Trump in a ceremony today to mark the 90th anniversary of Social Security commented to make system stronger they have, this year already ‘kicked off’ 270,000 illegal aliens the Social Security rolls. Only about a million to go? Now we know why Democrats were screaming and using courts to block access of information.
Exactly. Or, we need to put these inmates to work to pay for their jail time.
Interesting article, but what caught my interest was that Justice Doyle released him with conditions. What were those conditions. Part of the problem in America is that judges are too quick to release people instead of setting a bail. We need to end the bail system in America.
Another incident where common sense should expect that the anti-2A crowd would be besides themselves/hair on fire that a prohibited person attempted to obtain a firearm…but if that prohibition is based on immigration status, just crickets. The system worked…it apparently did prevent a prohibited person from obtaining a gun…which they would have had to wait 72 hours to take possession of.