Grand Jury Indicts Three for Drive-By Shooting Involving FBI Agent
| U.S. Attorney’s Office April 02, 2009 |
CINCINNATI—A federal grand jury here has indicted three Cincinnati men, charging them with assaulting a federal officer, in connection with a March 25, 2009 shooting where assailants fired multiple rounds into the car of an FBI agent.
Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas H. Streicher, Jr. announced the indictment returned late yesterday.
The grand jury charged the following Cincinnati men with assault on a federal agent:
- Robert Coker, age 25
- Deante Martell, age 23
- Kenny Davis, age 43
Assault on a federal agent is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment if a dangerous weapon is used or if bodily injury occurs.
Coker and Martell are also charged with use of a rifle or pistol in connection with a federal crime. This is punishable by a minimum of ten years and up to life imprisonment, consecutive to any time served if convicted of the assault on a federal agent charge.
Cincinnati Police officers and FBI agents arrested Coker on Friday, March 27, and Davis on Monday March 30, 2009. Martell surrendered at a Cincinnati Police District 5 substation Tuesday night, March 31.
The shooting occurred on Pasadena Avenue in the North College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati. The agent was injured by debris from the shooting.
Lockhart commended the cooperative investigation by FBI agents and Cincinnati Police officers, along with Assistant U.S Attorneys Tim Oakley and Karl Kadon, who are prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless convicted in court.