MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A former Miami-Dade observe and discipline athlete was sentenced to twenty years in federal jail Tuesday after making an attempt to shoot a person on his entrance porch and confronting a tow truck driver with a gun only a week later, authorities confirmed.
Olivier Ricardy Alexandre, 28, had pleaded responsible to possession of ammunition and possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, a information launch from the Division of Justice said.
U.S. District Courtroom Choose David S. Leibowitz handed down the sentence on Jan. 3, growing the penalty by 105 months as a result of severity of the crimes.
Lower than a month after being sentenced to probation in Kentucky for marijuana trafficking, investigators mentioned Alexandre fired 18 rounds at a person coming into his Miami-Dade residence on March 13, 2023.
The shell casings linked the weapon to 3 prior shootings, together with one the place the identical sufferer had been shot in October 2022, in response to forensic evaluation obtained by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace.
Plantation police mentioned officers had been surveilling Alexandre’s residence when he confronted a tow truck driver repossessing a automobile on March 21, 2023 and pulled out a handgun with an prolonged journal earlier than being arrested on the scene.
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