BEAUMONT, Texas — A 28-year-old Beaumont man who was on parole will be spending the next eight years in a federal prison for a gun charge.
Jared Javon Bias, 28, pleaded guilty on March 2, 2022, to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person before U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone on Tuesday, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Judge Crone then sentenced him to 96 months in federal prison.
Bias was arrested on a parole violation in January 2021 and during the arrest officers noticed he was trying to hide something the release said.
Officers then found a loaded semi-automatic gun in a backpack in the backseat.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2021 according to the release.
The case against Bias was prosecuted as part of the "Project Safe Neighborhoods Program."
The program is described in the release as the "centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts."
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Beaumont Police officers investigated the case which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachel Grove.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
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