South Bend, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Ivan Brazier, 40, is a South Bend man sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr. for kidnapping and extortion.
Brazier was sentenced to 444 months imprisonment and 1 year supervised release.
According to documents filed in this case, Brazier and his codefendants possessed firearms as felons to unlawfully confine or kidnap an individual and demanded a ransom for that individual’s release. A firearm was discharged, hitting the victim, during the kidnapping. Two co-defendants, Lindani Mzembe and Derek Fields were convicted in separate trials of kidnapping, extortion, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and use of a firearm in a crime of violence. Mzembe is scheduled to be sentenced on January 5, 2017, and Fields is scheduled to be sentenced on February 22, 2017.
This case was prosecuted as a result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Federal Bureau of Investigation; South Bend Police Department and the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys John M. Maciejczyk and Joel Gabrielse.
Source: DOJ
