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-/1*/· IV]
BRICK COLEMAN,
Defendant
I, the undersigned complainant, being duly swom, state the following is true and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief. On or about July 1, 2008, in the District of Delaware, Defendant Erick Coleman, 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 l_8_, United States Code,
Section(s) 922{g)( l 3 and 924§a)(2).
I further state that I am swom 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
Steven Parrott
Special Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to the ATF
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence,
July 1, 2008 at Wilmington, DE
Date City and State
Honorable Leonard P. Stark 1 Q &
United States Magistrate Judge L3! “
Name & Title of Judicial Officer Signature of Judicial Officer

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AFFIDAVIT OF STEVEN PARROTT
1. 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. ln addition your aftiant 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 1, 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 infonnation for the Defendant ERICK
COLEMAN from the Delaware Justice Information System and learned that the
defendant has seven felony convictions for which he faced incarceration for more
than one year. Those felony convictions are Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon
on or about 04/28/08 in New Castle County Superior Court, Forgery 2"d Degree on
or about 08/06/07 in Sussex County Superior Court, Receiving Stolen Property over
$1,000 on or about 03/02/05 in New Castle County Superior Court, Escape After
Conviction on or about 09/21/01 in Kent County Superior Court, Assault lst Degree
on or about 12/05/96 in New Castle County Superior Court, Possession of a
Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance within 1,000 feet of a School on or
about 08/O2/95 in New Castle County Superior Court, and Assault 2"d Degree and
Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony on or about
07/24/91 in New Castle County Superior Court.

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5. Your affiant spoke to a Wilmington Police Officer hereinafter referred to as Officer
1 and learned the following. Officer 1 was working in uniform with a partner and
they responded with other officers to a report of a man with a gun at a certain
location in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Officers were given a specific
description of the armed subject.
6. Officer 1 told your affiant the following. Upon arriving in the area, which is known
to Officer 1 to be a high crime area, Officer 1 saw the defendant, ERICK
COLEMAN, on a porch of a house in the block. The defendant had his back to the
street and his hands were in his lap. He matched the description given to officers
and was the only person in the area who did.
7. Officer l told your affiant the following. Officer 1 and other officers approached the
defendant and another person who was on the porch. The defendant refused to
comply with officers’ verbal commands and kept his back to officers and his hands
in his lap. He was forced to the ground and taken into custody. He was rolled onto
his side and at that time Officer 1 saw a handgun tucked in the front of his pants.
8. Your affiant viewed the seized firearm and found that it is a Ruger Model P95DC
9mm semi—automatic handgun, serial number 311-41104. At the time it was seized
it contained eleven rounds of ammunition in the magazine and one in it’s chamber.
It contained the frame and receiver of a fireami and appeared, based on your
affiant’s training and experience, to be a firearm.
9. Your affiant spoke with an ATF agent expertly trained inthe interstate nexus of
firearms. The agent stated that the seized firearm was manufactured in a state other
than Delaware, meaning that it had to cross state lines prior to its possession by the O
defendant.

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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
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
Swom 1to and subscribed in my presence
this Q day Or Zlux l] , 2008.
The Honorable Leonard P. Stark
United States Magistrate Judge

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