A expansive assemblage indicted 3 radical successful transportation with the alleged amerciable acquisition of firearms and the alleged introduction into a unafraid U.S. Department of Energy site successful North Las Vegas, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors allege that Treyvon Currie and Jessica Zamora attempted to participate the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada National Security Site’s North Las Vegas Facility nether mendacious pretenses and illegally possessed a weapon astatine the facility. Zamora faces 2 further counts related to the amerciable acquisition of firearms. A 3rd person, Demandre Frazier, besides faces 1 number related to the alleged amerciable acquisition of a firearm.
“The FBI volition not tolerate acts that jeopardize nationalist information oregon the information of our nation’s protected institutions,” FBI Las Vegas Special Agent successful Charge Christopher S. Delzotto said successful a quality release. “We volition proceed moving diligently with our instrumentality enforcement partners to analyse immoderate idiosyncratic who attempts to breach unafraid areas oregon circumvent national firearms restrictions.”
According to tribunal records, Zamora and Currie drove onto the North Las Vegas site, located astatine 232 Energy Way, adjacent Losee Road and North 5th Street, connected Aug. 5.
The installation supports the Nevada National Security Site’s atomic weapons stockpile stewardship programme and biology absorption and nationalist information responses.
When approached by a DOE instrumentality enforcement officer, Zamora and Currie said they were pursuing 2 employees onto the tract and provided 2 fictitious names, the indictment states.
A hunt of the conveyance led authorities to retrieve a Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol, tribunal records show.
An probe recovered that Frazier and Zamora made mendacious statements connected a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives signifier submitted to a pawn store portion Zamora was allegedly attempting to bargain the firearm for different person, the indictment states. Zamora and an unnamed suspect look an further firearms complaint related to different weapon acquisition successful April, according to the Justice Department.
An lawyer representing Zamora antecedently told the Review-Journal that she and Currie “made a incorrect turn.”
“The FBI alleges determination was this analyzable conspiracy to bash thing that they’re not adjacent definite of,” lawyer Chris Rasmussen antecedently said. “I don’t cognize wherefore Zamora and Currie were retired determination either, but if you’re going to sneak onto a concealed base, you would not spell done the beforehand entrance.”
A proceedings has been acceptable for Nov. 2, 2026.
Contact Devan Patel astatine dpatel@reviewjournal.com.
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