BUFFALO,
N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Carl
Randle, 58, of Buffalo, NY, was convicted following a jury trial of
menacing. The charge
carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
Assistant
U.S. Attorneys Stephanie O. Lamarque and Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who
handled the prosecution the case, stated that the defendant was at the
Veterans
Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo, NY on May 16, 2016 receiving medical
services. While waiting in a service line for at a coffee kiosk, Randle
attempted to engage a woman who was also purchasing coffee. The woman
declined to engage the defendant at which
time Randle pulled out a gun, waved it around and threatened the
victim.
Subsequently,
the defendant walked away from the coffee kiosk area and proceeded to
the third floor the VA and hid the gun in the medical center’s chapel.
Randle
was apprehended a short time later by VA police officers, who also
recovered the weapon brandished by Randle. The gun upon inspection
proved to be a BB gun.
The
verdict is the culmination of an investigation on the part of the
Veterans Affairs Police Department, under the direction of Chief Acting
Stephen Coville and
Special Agents of the United States Veterans Affairs, Office of
Inspector General, Criminal Investigations Division, under the direction
of Special Agent-in-Charge Jeffrey G. Hughes.
Sentencing
will be scheduled at a later date before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah
J. McCarthy who presided over the trial of the case.
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