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January 4, 2008

Street gang member set for sentencing today

A member of a violent street gang is set to be sentenced in federal court today for his part in a plot devised with a drug dealer to break into a drug supplier's house and rob him at gunpoint.

The drug dealer was actually a federal agent, and Nheat Nhim, 21, of 329 Webster Ave., Cranston, was arrested with three others.

Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Nhim and three others sold drugs to an undercover agent who said he wanted to try to "set up" a drug supplier.

Nhim said he knew people who could pull off the home invasion; the group met on April 26 and were arrested in a parking lot in Cranston.

Nhim pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime, and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

In September 2001, Nihm, then 15, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for breaking into a house, tying the family with duct tape and setting the house on fire.

He is scheduled for sentencing today by Judge William E. Smith at 3 p.m. in U.S. District Court.

-- With Journal archive reports

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 8:29 AM | Permalink

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