A federal grand jury has indicted a Fort Lauderdale man on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after he allegedly fired at a police K-9 during a pursuit in Fort Lauderdale, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n
Court records show that on April 18, law enforcement responded to a residential burglary in which a firearm had been stolen. Officers established a perimeter and, with assistance from aviation and K-9 units, located 30-year-old Christian Bouie of Fort Lauderdale hiding in a tree in a nearby yard.<\/p>\n
When ordered to come down, Bouie allegedly fled, scaled a fence and ran into an adjacent property.<\/p>\n
As a police K-9 pursued him, Bouie allegedly pulled out a firearm and fired two rounds at the dog, striking it, according to court documents. He continued fleeing before officers ultimately apprehended him. After taking Bouie into custody, officers recovered a firearm from his pocket.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice K-9s protect our officers, our neighborhoods and our families,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones for the Southern District of Florida. \u201cThis indictment alleges that a convicted felon unlawfully possessed a firearm and fired at a police K-9 during a pursuit in Fort Lauderdale. When armed felons allegedly endanger law enforcement and the public, our office will prosecute those cases to the fullest extent of federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bouie has prior felony convictions, including a robbery with a firearm conviction, and is prohibited under federal law from possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n
If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.<\/p>\n
U.S. Attorney Reding Qui\u00f1ones and Special Agent in Charge Jason Stankiewicz of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Miami Field Division announced the charges.<\/p>\n
The ATF Miami Field Division is investigating the case with assistance from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Ustynoski is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal grand jury has indicted a Fort Lauderdale man on a charge of possession of a firearm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-294483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}