PORTLAND — A Portland man was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen sentenced Mohamud Abdullahi, 32, to 75 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
Abdullahi pleaded guilty on Aug. 19.
According to court records, on Nov. 23, 2023, the Portland Police Department received reports of shots fired near the intersection of Commercial and Cross streets.
A caller described the suspect pulling a firearm from his waistband and firing two shots into the air before getting into a vehicle, and also described the vehicle.
The descriptions were later confirmed by security camera footage from a nearby building.
Responding officers recovered two spent 9mm shell casings from the scene, and the vehicle was intercepted by South Portland police after it crossed the bridge into South Portland.
After a brief attempt to flee, Abdullahi was arrested.
The firearm used in the shooting was recovered the next day from the front lawn of a residence near where the vehicle was stopped.
Abdullahi was precluded from possessing firearms because of his prior convictions for assault and aggravated criminal trespass in 2017, and unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs in 2011.
