Nigerian gets five years in Kansas jail for threatening federal agent
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A 22-year-old Kansas-based Nigerian student, Osayuwame Bazuaye, who was previously convicted for possessing weapons in Wichita, has received an additional five-year sentence for threatening a federal agent’s family.
The U.S. attorney’s office for Kansas said, in a release on Friday, that Bazuaye was charged in 2012 with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition after he fired a handgun from the balcony of his Wichita apartment.
While he was in custody, Bazuaye was also convicted of threatening to sexually assault the wife and daughter of a deportation officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The prosecutor’s office says he was sentenced on Friday to five years on the threat charge.
The five-year sentence will run consecutively to the two-year sentence he’s serving in the firearms case after which he faces deportation back to Nigeria.
Bazuaye has been in Wichita since 2008 when he entered the United States on a student visa and attended Butler County Community College and Wichita State University.
The U.S. attorney’s office for Kansas said, in a release on Friday, that Bazuaye was charged in 2012 with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition after he fired a handgun from the balcony of his Wichita apartment.
While he was in custody, Bazuaye was also convicted of threatening to sexually assault the wife and daughter of a deportation officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The prosecutor’s office says he was sentenced on Friday to five years on the threat charge.
The five-year sentence will run consecutively to the two-year sentence he’s serving in the firearms case after which he faces deportation back to Nigeria.
Bazuaye has been in Wichita since 2008 when he entered the United States on a student visa and attended Butler County Community College and Wichita State University.
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