Free Complaint - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

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In United States District Court
For the District of Delaware
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Criminal Complaint
v.
CASE NUMBER: 08- g I
TIRON WARRINGTON,
Defendant
I, the undersigned complainant, being duly sworn, state the following is true and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief On or about July 24, 2008, in the District of Delaware, Defendant Tiron Warrington, after having
been convicted of a felony crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, did knowingly
possess in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce a firearm, in violation of Title Q, United States Code,
Section(s) 922(g)( l Q and 924§a)l2 ).
I further state that I am sworn as a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal and am assigned to the ATF
and that this complaint is based on the following facts:
E attached Affidavit
Continued on the attached sheet and made a part hereof: Yes
if/—··*
Steven Parrott
Special Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to the ATF
Swom to before me and subscribed in my presence,
July 25, 2008 at Wilmington, DE
Date City and State
Honorable Leonard P. Stark { Q
United States Magistrate Judge L" °
Name & Title of Judicial Officer Signatu of Judicial Officer

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AFFIDAVIT OF STEVEN PARROTT
l. Your affiant is Steven Parrott. Your affiant is a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal and is
currently assigned as a Task Force Officer to the Wilmington, Delaware office of
the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Your affiant has
been a police officer for the city of Wilmington, Delaware for ten years. Prior to
your affiant’s employment with the city of Wilmington, Delaware, your affiant was
a sworn police officer for ten years working in other states. In all your affiant has
twenty years of experience as a sworn police officer. Your affiant has attended and
completed training in police/law enforcement academies in the states of Florida,
Wyoming and Delaware. Your affiant has received training in the recognition of
firearms and the investigation of firearms offenses at all three of these academies as
well as regularly attending in-service training throughout your affiant’s career. Your
affiant has participated in the seizures of over fifty firearms and the investigation of
a substantial number of firearm—related offenses. In addition your affiant has
participated in discussions about the facts and circumstances of firearms offenses
with other police officers, including but not limited to local, state and federal
officers, specific to their own knowledge, experience and training of such offenses.
2. Unless otherwise noted, the information in this affidavit is based on your affiant’s
personal knowledge and conversations with officers of the Wilmington, Delaware
Police Department and/or a Special Agent of the ATF who is specially trained in
the investigation of firearms—related incidents and the interstate nexus of firearms.
3. The seizure of all the below listed evidence took place on July 24th, 2008, in the
city of Wilmington, state and District of Delaware, as stated below to me by one or
more Wilmington Police Officers.
4. Your affiant reviewed the criminal history information for the Defendant TIRON
WARRINGTON from the Delaware Justice information System and learned that
the defendant has a felony conviction for which he faced incarceration for more
than one year. The felony was Possession With Intent to Deliver a Narcotic
Schedule 1 Controlled Substance, with a sentencing date on or about 10/03/07. This
conviction was in the Superior Court in and for New Castle County, Delaware.
5. Your affiant spoke to a Wilmington Police Officer hereinafter referred to as Officer
l and learned the following. Officer 1 was working in a plain clothes capacity and
observed the defendant walking on a city street in the city of Wilmington,
Delaware. Officer l recognized the defendant based upon infonnation received
from a past, proven reliable confidential informant and a picture he had obtained of
the defendant. Officer l knew that the defendant was wanted on an outstanding
capras.

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6. Officer 1 told your affiant the following. Officer 1 called for uniformed officers to
stop the defendant. Several officers responded and took the defendant into custody
without incident.
7. Your affiant spoke to another officer herein after referred to as Officer 2. Officer 2
stated that upon responding to Officer l’s call he, along with other officers, took the
defendant into custody. Officer 2 searched the defendant incidental to his arrest and
found a Beretta model 2lA .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun, serial #
DAA227688, in the defendant’s right rear pants pocket. It was loaded with eight
rounds of ammunition in the magazine and one in the chamber.
8. Based on your affiant’s personal observation of the seized firearm your affiant
believes the firearm: l)contains the frame and receiver of a firearm, 2) appears to be
capable of expelling a projectile by action of an explosive, and 3) is a firearm under
18 U.S.C. 92l(a)(3).
9. Your affiant spoke with an ATF agent expertly trained in the interstate nexus of
firearms. That agent stated that the seized firearm was manufactured in a state other
than Delaware or a country other than the United States, meaning the seized firearm
would have had to cross state and/or national lines prior to its possession in
Delaware, thereby affecting foreign and and/or interstate commerce.
10. This affidavit has been prepared for the purpose of establishing probable cause.
Further information regarding this incident is known by your affiant.

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Wherefore, based upon your affiant’s training and experience, your affiant believes that
there is probable cause to believe that the defendant did possess in and affecting interstate
and foreign commerce, a firearm after having been convicted of a felony crime
punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year in violation of Title 18
U.S.C., Section(s) 922(g)(l) and (924)(a)(2).
Steven P. Parrott
Task Force Officer, ATF
Special Deputy U.S. Marshal
Sworn to and sL§sciibed in my presence
this xiday of J :` , 2008.
The Honorable Leonard P. Stark
United States Magistrate Judge

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