U.S. District Court Criminal Complaint

Case 2:20-mj-30370-DUTY ECF No.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

for the
Eastern District of Michigan
United States of America

v.
Case: 2:20−mj−30370
Jeremy Massey, Jr. Case No. Assigned To : Unassigned
Assign. Date : 9/11/2020
USA V. MASSEY (CMP)(CMC)
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
I, the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
On or about the date(s) of September 10, 2020 in the county of Wayne in the
Eastern District of Michigan , the defendant(s) violated:
Code Section Offense Description
18 USC § 922(n) Receipt of a firearm by a person under Indictment
18 USC § 922(g)(3) Unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm
This criminal complaint is based on these facts:

see attached affidavit.
✔ Continued on the attached sheet.
Complainant’s signature
Brett J. Brandon, Special Agent (ATF)

Printed name and title
Sworn to before me and signed in my presence
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Date: September 11, 2020 Judge’s signature
City and state: Detroit, Michigan Hon. R. Steven Whalen, United States Magistrate Judge
Printed name and title
Case 2:20-mj-30370-DUTY ECF No. 1 filed 09/11/20 PageID.2 Page 2 of 17
AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF AN CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
I, Brett J. Brandon, being first duly sworn, hereby state:
1. I have been a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms, and Explosives, United States Department of Justice, assigned to the
Detroit Field Division since July 2013. I graduated from the Criminal Investigator
Training Program and the ATF Special Agent Basic Training Program at the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. During my
employment with ATF, I have conducted and/or participated in numerous criminal
investigations involving the illegal possession, use, and sale of firearms, drug
trafficking violations, and criminal street gangs.
2. I make this affidavit from personal knowledge based on my
participation in this investigation, including interviews conducted by myself and/or
other law enforcement agents, communications with others who have personal
knowledge of the events and circumstances described herein, and information
gained through my training and experience.
3. ATF is currently conducting a criminal investigation concerning
JEREMY MASSEY JR. (B/M; DOB: XX/XX/2001) for violations of 18 U.S.C. §
922(n) – Receipt of a Firearm by a Person Under Indictment, and 18 U.S.C. §
922(g)(3) – Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm,
among other state and federal criminal violations.

PROBABLE CAUSE
INSTAGRAM
4. In March 2020, Affiant began monitoring the Instagram Profile
associated with Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim.” The user of the “eastbabyslim”
account subsequently changed the User ID to “tlg__slim”, then “cclslim_” and
most recently “_cclslim”. Through training and experience, Affiant knows that
Instagram account users can change their User ID without changing or modifying
the ownership or content of their account.
5. Throughout March through September 2020, Affiant has reviewed
“stories” (short videos or images that can be posted to an Instagram user’s account
and displayed publically or to the user’s followers in a private account), and other
images and videos posted by Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim.”
6. Affiant compared the individual depicted and held out as Instagram
user “eastbabyslim” in the account’s images and videos to a Michigan Secretary of
State image of MASSEY dated May 17, 2016. Image 6a is MASSEY’s SOS
photo. Affiant identified MASSEY as the individual depicted in the images and
videos and determined MASSEY accessed and utilized the “eastbabyslim”
account. Image 6c was posted by Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim” on or about
March 30, 2020 and depicts MASSEY (in the jean jacket) holding what appears to
be a black and silver pistol and holding what appears to be a marijuana blunt.
Affiant knows the individual depicted in the black hoodie to be MYTEZ TERALL
POWELL, whom affiant previously investigated and arrested for violating 18
U.S.C. 922 § (g)(3) – User of Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm,
specifically marijuana. In the image, Image 6b is a cropped version of the photo in
Image 6c.
Image 6a Image 6b
Image 6c
7. On March 25, 2020, Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim” posted a series
of video stories depicting what appeared to be marijuana buds and marijuana in a
plastic bag on a table. The final video in the series showed MASSEY smoking
what appears to be a marijuana blunt inside of a vehicle. Images 7a and 7b are
screenshots of these video stories.
Image 7a Image 7b
8. On August 17, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted Image
8a—a photo depicting MASSEY smoking what appears to be an object consistent
with marijuana blunt/cigar.
Image 8a
9. On August 24, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted Image 14a to the
user’s story. Image 9a depicts MASSEY (right) wearing a brown messenger
shoulder bag holding what appeared to a Glock pistol. Immediately thereafter,
Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted a video story of the user retrieving what
appeared to be a Glock pistol from the brown messenger shoulder bag. Image 9b is
a screenshot of this video.
Image 9a Image 9b
10. On August 28, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted a series of
video stories depicting MASSEY brandishing what appeared to be a Glock pistol
while seated in a vehicle. One of the videos captured a Glock pistol pointed at
what appeared to be a marijuana blunt. Images 10a, 10b, and 10c are screenshots.
Image 10a Image 10b Image 10c

11. On September 6, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted a video
story depicting the driver of a vehicle holding an opened bag containing what
appeared to be marijuana. Affiant noted the driver of the vehicle, whose face was
not shown, appeared to film the video and was wearing red pants. Image 11a is a
screenshot of that video.
Image 11a
12. In the early morning hours of September 7, 2020, Instagram User ID
“_cclslim” posted a video story depicting a Glock pistol with an attached
aftermarket light on a bed next to a black male with what appeared to be braided
hair, similar to MASSEY’s. The face of the person capturing the video is not
visible. Image 20 is a screenshot of this video. Affiant noted the hexagon shapes
patterned on the bed sheet, which appears to be the same bed sheet depicted in the
video of the disassembled Glock posted from the same account on September 1,
2020.
Image 12a
RECENT POLICE CONTACT AND CRIMINAL HISTORY
13. On December 11, 2019, the Detroit Police Department conducted a
traffic stop of a white Chevrolet Tahoe in the area of Spencer Street and Eight Mile
Road in the city of Detroit. There were four occupants in the vehicle, including
MASSEY, who was seated in the rear driver’s seat. During the stop, the officers
noted they immediately smelled a strong odor of freshly burnt marijuana emitting
from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. Officers subsequently searched
the vehicle and recovered a black pistol from the rear passenger side floorboard.
14. Affiant reviewed a computerized criminal history (CCH), Michigan
Sixth Circuit court records, Michigan Sixteenth Circuit court records and MDOC
records regarding MASSEY.
15. MASSEY is currently under indictment for felony offenses in the
Oakland County Sixth Circuit Court and Macomb County Sixteenth Circuit Court.
On January 30, 2020 MASSEY was arraigned in 52-1 District Court on an arrest
warrant for Felony – Unarmed Robbery.
16. On March 6, 2020, MASSEY was arraigned in Michigan Sixth
Circuit Court (Oakland) for Felony – Unarmed Robbery charge and is scheduled
for jury trial on September 18, 2020. Felony – Unarmed Robbery is a charge
punishable by a sentence of more than one year in prison.

17. On March 16, 2020, MASSEY was arraigned in Michigan Sixteenth
Circuit Court (Macomb) on the following charges: Felony Fleeing and Eluding in
the Third degree, Felony Assaulting/Resisting/Obstructing a Police Officer,
Leaving the Scene of a Personal Injury Accident, and Driving While License
Suspended. MASSEY is scheduled for a pretrial on September 24, 2020. Fleeing
and Eluding in the Third Degree and Assaulting/Resisting/Obstructing a Police
Officer are each charges punishable by a sentence of more than one year in prison.
FEDERAL SEARCH WARRANT
18. On September 9, 2020, Affiant obtained a federal search warrant for
MASSEY’S residence on Sunset Street in Detroit, Michigan from United States
Magistrate Judge R. Stephen Whalen.
19. On September 10, 2020 at approximately 3:26 pm, the ATF Detroit
Crime Gun Enforcement Team (CGET) executed the federal search warrant at the
residence on Sunset Street in Detroit, Michigan.
20. CGET officers wearing “POLICE” and “ATF” identifiers approached
the residence and announced their presence. CGET officers explained to an
unidentified black woman standing in the doorway they had a search warrant for
the residence.
21. At that time, an ATF Task Force Officer heard bushes rattling in the
backyard of the residence and announced that someone might be running from the
rear of the residence. Another Task Force Officer conducting surveillance for the
operation observed MASSEY, wearing a black t-shirt and red pants, running across
the street directly behind the residence. The Task Force Officer and Detroit Police
Department officers chased after MASSEY.
22. After a short foot chase, officers caught up to MASSEY in the
backyard of a residence nearby and placed him under arrest. The CGET officers
conducted a search of the Sunset Street residence and recovered one black Glock
41 .45 caliber pistol bearing serial number “YWE990” from inside a brown
messenger bag from on top of a built-in cabinet located in a makeshift bedroom in
the northeast part of basement.
23. The firearm and the messenger bag it was contained in appear to be
the same ones MASSEY previously posted to his Instagram account (Images 9a-b,
Images 10a-c, and Image 12a). Affiant also noted the sheets on the bed in the
makeshift bedroom of the basement matched the sheets in the videos MASSEY
previously posted to his Instagram account (Image 12a). The brown messenger bag
and firearm were located at the foot of the bed next to clothes the Affiant
previously observed MASSEY wearing on social media. CGET officers also

located and photographed MASSEY’s driver’s license and a copy of his birth
certificate in the makeshift bedroom.
24. CGET officers also recovered what appeared to be loose marijuana
and burned marijuana blunts from an ashtray located directly next to the firearm
and messenger bag. CGET officers noted the strong smell of freshly burnt
marijuana in the basement.
25. CGET officers also recovered a Glock pistol case with a sticker with
“41 gen 4 83277” in handwriting as well as a “TARGET SPORTS” sales sticker
for “$849.99” affixed to the box.
FIREARM REGISTRATION AND INTERSTATE NEXUS
26. An ATF Intelligence Research Specialist queried the firearm in the
Michigan Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) and learned the
purchaser of the firearm purchased and registered the firearm on August 5, 2020.
To date, the firearm has not been reported stolen in the National Crime Information
Center (NCIC).
27. Special Agent Kenton Weston contacted Target Sports, a federal
firearms license (FFL) located in Royal Oak, Michigan, who confirmed they sold
the firearm to the purchaser on August 5, 2020. Affiant is aware this occurred after
MASSEY was arraigned in the Sixth Circuit Court of Michigan on March 6, 2020,
and after MASSEY was arraigned in the Sixteenth Circuit Court of Michigan on
March 16, 2020.
28. On September 11, 2020, Affiant contacted ATF Interstate Nexus
Expert, Special Agent Michael Jacobs and provided a verbal description of the
firearm. Based upon the verbal description, Special Agent Jacobs advised the
firearm is a firearm as defined under 18 U.S.C. § 921 and manufactured outside of
the state of Michigan after 1898, and therefore had traveled in and affected
interstate commerce.
CONCLUSION
29. Based upon the aforementioned facts stated herein, there is probable
cause to believe JEREMY MASSEY JR., a person under indictment and a user of a
controlled substance, namely marijuana, did knowingly and intentionally receive
and possess a Glock 41 .45 caliber pistol bearing serial number “YWE990” pistol
bearing, a firearm having affected interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §
922(n) – Receipt of a Firearm by a Person Under Indictment, and 18 U.S.C. §
922(g)(3) – Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm.

Said violation occurring on September 10, 2020, in the city of Detroit, in the
County of Wayne, in the Eastern Judicial District of Michigan.
Respectfully submitted,
Brett J. Brandon, Special Agent

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives
Sworn to before me and signed in my presence

and/or by reliable electronic means.
_________________________________________
Hon. R. Steven Whalen
United States Magistrate Judge
Dated: September 11, 2020

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Case 2:20-mj-30370-DUTY ECF No.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

United States of America

This criminal complaint is based on these facts:

✔ Continued on the attached sheet.

Brett J. Brandon, Special Agent (ATF)

Date: September 11, 2020 Judge’s signature

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF AN CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

I, Brett J. Brandon, being first duly sworn, hereby state:

1. I have been a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

Firearms, and Explosives, United States Department of Justice, assigned to the

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. During my

employment with ATF, I have conducted and/or participated in numerous criminal

trafficking violations, and criminal street gangs.

2. I make this affidavit from personal knowledge based on my

participation in this investigation, including interviews conducted by myself and/or

knowledge of the events and circumstances described herein, and information

gained through my training and experience.

3. ATF is currently conducting a criminal investigation concerning

JEREMY MASSEY JR. (B/M; DOB: XX/XX/2001) for violations of 18 U.S.C. §

922(n) – Receipt of a Firearm by a Person Under Indictment, and 18 U.S.C. §

922(g)(3) – Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm,

among other state and federal criminal violations.

4. In March 2020, Affiant began monitoring the Instagram Profile

associated with Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim.” The user of the “eastbabyslim”

account subsequently changed the User ID to “tlg__slim”, then “cclslim_” and

the ownership or content of their account.

5. Throughout March through September 2020, Affiant has reviewed

images and videos posted by Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim.”

6. Affiant compared the individual depicted and held out as Instagram

user “eastbabyslim” in the account’s images and videos to a Michigan Secretary of

videos and determined MASSEY accessed and utilized the “eastbabyslim”

account. Image 6c was posted by Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim” on or about

POWELL, whom affiant previously investigated and arrested for violating 18

U.S.C. 922 § (g)(3) – User of Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm,

specifically marijuana. In the image, Image 6b is a cropped version of the photo in

7. On March 25, 2020, Instagram User ID “eastbabyslim” posted a series

of video stories depicting what appeared to be marijuana buds and marijuana in a

what appears to be a marijuana blunt inside of a vehicle. Images 7a and 7b are

screenshots of these video stories.

8. On August 17, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted Image

8a—a photo depicting MASSEY smoking what appears to be an object consistent

with marijuana blunt/cigar.

user’s story. Image 9a depicts MASSEY (right) wearing a brown messenger

shoulder bag holding what appeared to a Glock pistol. Immediately thereafter,

a screenshot of this video.

10. On August 28, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted a series of

video stories depicting MASSEY brandishing what appeared to be a Glock pistol

Image 10a Image 10b Image 10c

11. On September 6, 2020, Instagram User ID “_cclslim” posted a video

screenshot of that video.

12. In the early morning hours of September 7, 2020, Instagram User ID

“_cclslim” posted a video story depicting a Glock pistol with an attached

RECENT POLICE CONTACT AND CRIMINAL HISTORY

13. On December 11, 2019, the Detroit Police Department conducted a

from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. Officers subsequently searched

14. Affiant reviewed a computerized criminal history (CCH), Michigan

records regarding MASSEY.

15. MASSEY is currently under indictment for felony offenses in the

warrant for Felony – Unarmed Robbery.

16. On March 6, 2020, MASSEY was arraigned in Michigan Sixth

punishable by a sentence of more than one year in prison.

17. On March 16, 2020, MASSEY was arraigned in Michigan Sixteenth