A Framingham man, who has a history of felony convictions, admitted his wrongs in a Boston federal court today. Convicted felon Edwin Alago, 42, delivered a guilty plea for unlawfully holding a firearm and bullets, according to the Department of Justice. The admission before U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper has set the stage for a sentencing event, penned for March 12, 2024.
Previously packed by charges at the state level, Alago hit the federal indictment list in June 2023. The man, forbidden by his criminal past from possessing such tools of violence, was found in May 2021 with a tampered SCCY .9mm CPX-2 handgun and a collection of seven .9mm rounds.
The weight of his charge—carrying a firearm to further drug trafficking—could see Alago facing a vast chasm of time behind bars, life at the most extreme and no less than five solid years as a minimum, along with the potential punch of a $250,000 fine. After the judge makes the decision, influenced by guidelines and statues dictating sentences, Alago might find himself walking a path of supervised release for up to half a decade.
The announcement of Alago’s guilty plea was made by Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and ATF Boston's head honcho, James M. Ferguson. They were quick to laud the effort of community law enforcement, pointing out the cooperation between the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and the Framingham Police Department. The prosecutors, Meghan C. Cleary and Brian Sullivan, denizens of the Major Crimes Unit, are orchestrating the legal maneuvers in the case.
Alago's case is a thread in the wider fabric of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a collective effort to stitch together law enforcement and citizens for the larger quilt of reducing violent crime and putting the safety of neighborhoods at the forefront. It was on May 26, 2021, when the Department unfurled its violent crime reduction strategy to reinforce PSN, rooted in trust-building within communities, empowering organizations in the prevention of violence, strategic law enforcement prioritization, and keeping an analytical eye on outcomes.
