Opinion
2:22CR00011JLR-001
05-23-2023
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Jay Steward
Vanessa Pai-Thompson Defendant's Attorney
USM Number: 37409-086
Vanessa Pai-Thompson Defendant's Attorney
JUDGMENT IN A CRIMINAL CASE
JAMES L. ROBART, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
IE DEFENDANT:
[X] pleaded guilty to count(s) 1 and 2 of the Indictment
[ ]pleaded nolo contendere to count(s)____which was accepted by the court.
[ ]was found guilty on count(s) ___after a plea of not guilty.
The defendant is adjudicated guilty of these offenses:
Title & Section
Nature of Offense
Offense Ended
Count
21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(C).
Possession of Controlled Substances with Intent to Distribute
December 9, 2021
1
18. U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i).
Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime
December 9, 2021
2
The defendant is sentenced as provided in pages 2 through 7 of this judgment. The sentence is imposed pursuant to: Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.
[ ] The defendant has been found not guilty on count(s)
[X]Count(s) _3_ [X] is [ ] are dismissed on the motion of the United States.
It is ordered that the defendant must notify the United States attorney for this district within 30 days of any change of name, residence, mailing address until all fines, restitution, costs, and special assessments imposed by this judgment are fully paid. If ordered to pay restitution, the defendant must notify the court and United States Attorney of material changes in economic circumstances.
IMPRISONMENT
The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of:
60 months on cant 2, Consecutive to 30 month on Count 1, Fan a Total Sentence of 90 months
[X] The court makes the following recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons:
The Court strongly recommends the following:
(1) Resolve Program due to documented need for mental health treatment, specifically including cognitive based trauma therapy and DBT.
(2) RDAP due to documented need for drug treatment.
(3) As close as possible to Atlanta, Georgia to be near family; but not FCI Sheridan.
[X] The defendant is remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal.
[ ] The defendant shall surrender to the United States Marshal for this district:
[ ] at [ ] a.m. [ ] p.m. on __.
[ ] as notified by the United States Marshal.
[ ] The defendant shall surrender for service of sentence at the institution designated by the Bureau of Prisons.
[ ] before 2 p.m. on ___.
[ ] as notified by the United States Marshal.
[ ] as notified by the Probation or Pretrial Services Office.
RETURN
I have executed this judgment as follows:
Defendant delivered on___to __at with a certified copy of this judgment.
SUPERVISED RELEASE
Upon release from imprisonment, you will be on supervised release for a term of:
MANDATORY CONDITIONS
1. You must not commit another federal, state or local crime.
2. You must not unlawfully possess a controlled substance.
3. You must refrain from any unlawful use of a controlled substance. You must submit to one drug test within 15 days of release from imprisonment and at least two periodic drug tests thereafter, as determined by the court.
[ ] The above drug testing condition is suspended, based on the court's determination that you pose a low risk of future substance abuse, (check if applicable)
4. [ ] You must make restitution in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §§ 3663 and 3663A or any other statute authorizing a sentence of restitution, (check if applicable)
5. [X] You must cooperate in the collection of DNA as directed by the probation officer, (check if applicable)
6. [ ] You must comply with the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (34 U.S.C. § 20901, et seq.) as directed by the probation officer, the Bureau of Prisons, or any state sex offender registration agency in which you reside, work, are a student, or were convicted of a qualifying offense, (check if applicable)
7. [ ] You must participate in an approved program for domestic violence, (check if applicable)
You must comply with the standard conditions that have been adopted by this court as well as with any additional iditions on the attached pages.
STANDARD CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISION
As part of your supervised release, you must comply with the following standard conditions of supervision. These Conditions are imposed because they establish the basic expectations for your behavior while on supervision and identify; minimum tools needed by probation officers to keep informed, report to the court about, and bring about improvements your conduct and condition.
1. You must report to the probation office in the federal judicial district where you are authorized to reside within 72 hours of your release from imprisonment, unless the probation officer instructs you to report to a different probation office or within a different time frame.
2. After initially reporting to the probation office, you will receive instructions from the court or the probation officer about how and when you must report to the probation officer, and you must report to the probation officer as instructed.
3. You must not knowingly leave the federal judicial district where you are authorized to reside without first getting permission from the court or the probation officer.
4. You must answer truthfully the questions asked by your probation officer.
5. You must live at a place approved by the probation officer. If you plan to change where you live or anything about your living arrangements (such as the people you live with), you must notify the probation officer at least 10 days before the change. If notifying the probation officer in advance is not possible due to unanticipated circumstances, you must notify the probation officer within 72 hours of becoming aware of a change or expected change.
6. You must allow the probation officer to visit you at any time at your home or elsewhere, and you must permit the probation officer to take any items prohibited by the conditions of your supervision that he or she observes in plain view.
7. You must work full time (at least 30 hours per week) at a lawful type of employment, unless the probation officer excuses you from doing so. If you do not have full-time employment you must try to find full-time employment, unless the probation officer excuses you from doing so. If you plan to change where you work or anything about your work (such as your position or your job responsibilities), you must notify the probation officer at least 10 days before the change. If notifying the probation officer at least 10 days in advance is not possible due to unanticipated circumstances, you must notify the probation officer within 72 hours of becoming aware of a change or expected change.
8. You must not communicate or interact with someone you know is engaged in criminal activity. If you know someone has been convicted of a felony, you must not knowingly communicate or interact with that person without first getting the permission of the probation officer.
9. If you are arrested or questioned by a law enforcement officer, you must notify the probation officer within 72 hours.
10. You must not own, possess, or have access to a firearm, ammunition, destructive device, or dangerous weapon (i.e., anything that was designed, or was modified for, the specific purpose of causing bodily injury or death to another person such as nunchakus or tasers).
11. You must not act or make any agreement with a law enforcement agency to act as a confidential human source or informant without first getting the permission of the court.
12. If the probation officer determines that you pose a risk to another person (including an organization), the probation officer may require you to notify the person about the risk and you must comply with that instruction. The probation officer may contact the person and confirm that you have notified the person about the risk.
13.You must follow the instructions of the probation officer related to the conditions of supervision.
S. Probation Office Use Only
U.S. probation officer has instructed me on the conditions specified by the court and has provided me with a written copy this judgment containing these conditions. For further information regarding these conditions, see Overview of Probation d Supervised Release Conditions, available at www.uscourts.gov.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISION
1. The defendant shall participate as instructed by the U.S. Probation Officer in a program approved by the probation office for treatment of narcotic addiction, drug dependency, or substance abuse, which may include testing to determine if defendant has reverted to the use of drugs or alcohol. The defendant shall also abstain from the use of alcohol and/or other intoxicants during the term of supervision. Defendant must contribute towards the cost of any programs, to the extent defendant is financially able to do so, as determined by the U.S. Probation Officer. In addition to urinalysis testing that may be a part of a formal drug treatment program, the defendant shall submit up to eight (8) urinalysis tests per month.
2. The defendant shall participate as directed in the Moral Reconation Therapy program approved by the United States Probation and Pretrial Services Office. The defendant must contribute towards the cost of any programs, to the extent the defendant is financially able to do so, as determined by the U.S. Probation Officer.
3. The defendant shall participate as directed in a mental health program approved by the United States Probation Office. The defendant must contribute towards the cost of any programs, to the extent the defendant is financially able to do so, as determined by the U.S. Probation Officer.
4. The defendant shall submit his or her person, property, house, residence, storage unit, vehicle, papers, computers (as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(1)), other electronic communications or data storage devices or media, or office, to a search conducted by a United States probation officer, at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner, based upon reasonable suspicion of contraband or evidence of a violation of a condition of supervision. Failure to submit to a search may be grounds for revocation. The defendant shall warn any other occupants that the premises may be subject to searches pursuant to this condition.
CRIMINAL MONETARY PENALTIES
The defendant must pay the total criminal monetary penalties under the schedule of payments on Sheet 6.
| Assessment | Restitution | Fine | |||
| TOTALS | $ $200.00 | $N/A | $ Waived | $ N/A | $ N/A |
Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-299.
Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-22.
[ ] The determination of restitution is deferred until ___An Amended Judgment in a Criminal Case (AO 245C) will be entered after such determination.
[ ] The defendant must make restitution (including community restitution) to the following payees in the amount listed below.
If the defendant makes a partial payment, each payee shall receive an approximately proportioned payment, unless specified otherwise in the priority order or percentage payment column below. However, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3664(i), all nonfederal victims must be paid before the United States is paid.
Name of Payee Total Loss Restitution Ordered Priority or Percentage
TOTALS $ 0-00 $ 0-00
[ ] Restitution amount ordered pursuant to plea agreement $ ___
[ ] The defendant must pay interest on restitution and a fine of more than $2,500, unless the restitution or fine is paid in full before the fifteenth day after the date of the judgment, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3612(f). All of the payment options on Sheet 6 may be subject to penalties for delinquency and default, pursuant to 18U.S.C. § 3612(g).
[ ] The court determined that the defendant does not have the ability to pay interest and it is ordered that:
[ ] the interest requirement is waived for the [ ] fine [ ] restitution
[ ] the interest requirement for the [ ] fine [ ] restitution is modified as follows:
[X] The court finds the defendant is financially unable and is unlikely to become able to pay a fine and, accordingly, the imposition of a fine is waived.
SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
Having assessed the defendant's ability to pay, payment of the total criminal monetary penalties is due as follows:
[X] PAYMENT IS DUE IMMEDIATELY. Any unpaid amount shall be paid to Clerk's Office, United States District Court, 700 Stewart Street, Seattle, WA 98101.
[X] During the period of imprisonment, no less than 25% of their inmate gross monthly income or $25.00 per quarter, whichever is greater, to be collected and disbursed in accordance with the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program.
[X] During the period of supervised release, in monthly installments amounting to not less than 10% of the defendant's gross monthly household income, to commence 30 days after release from imprisonment.
[ ] During the period of probation, in monthly installments amounting to not less than 10% of the defendant's gross monthly household income, to commence 30 days after the date of this judgment.
The payment schedule above is the minimum amount that the defendant is expected to pay towards the monetary penalties imposed by the Court. The defendant shall pay more than the amount established whenever possible. The defendant must notify the Court, the United States Probation Office, and the United States Attorney's Office of any material change in the defendant's financial circumstances that might affect the ability to pay restitution.
Unless the court has expressly ordered otherwise, if this judgment imposes imprisonment, payment of criminal monetary laities is due during the period of imprisonment. All criminal monetary penalties, except those payments made through Federal Bureau of Prisons' Inmate Financial Responsibility Program are made to the United States District Court, astern District of Washington. For restitution payments, the Clerk of the Court is to forward money received to the party(ies) designated to receive restitution specified on the Criminal Monetaries (Sheet 5) page.
The defendant shall receive credit for all payments previously made toward any criminal monetary penalties imposed.
[ ] Joint and Several
Case Number .
Defendant and Co-Defendant Names (including defendant number) Total Amount Joint and Several Amount Corresponding Payee, if appropriate
[ ] The defendant shall pay the cost of prosecution.
[ ] The defendant shall pay the following court cost(s):
[ ] The defendant shall forfeit the defendant's interest in the following property to the United States:
Payments shall be applied in the following order: (1) assessment, (2) restitution principal, (3) restitution interest, (4) AVAA assessment, fine principal, (6) fine interest, (7) community restitution, (8) JVTA Assessment, (9) penalties, and (10) costs, including cost of prosecution and court costs.
Findings for the total amount of losses are required under Chapters 109A, 110, IlOA, and 113A of Title 18 for offenses committed on or after September 13, 1994, but before April 23,1996.