Statement of Facts (D.D.C., Dkt. 1-1, November 20, 2025)

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This is a Statement of Facts in Case 1:25-cr-00378, Document 1-1, filed 11/20/25 in the District of Columbia, signed by Police Officer Ihsan Ozdemir of the Metropolitan Police Department. It states that on November 19, 2025 officers detained Abdul Fields on an open arrest warrant for Simple Assault and, during a search incident to arrest, found a handgun in his waistband after a struggle. It describes the firearm as a Polymer 80, nine-millimeter ghost gun with no serial number, loaded with one round in the chamber and eleven rounds in a magazine. It states that he has a prior felony conviction for Voluntary Manslaughter with a sentence of 102 months and that probable cause exists to charge him under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

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       Case 1:25-cr-00378-RJL          Document 1-1       Filed 11/20/25      Page 1 of 2




                                  STATEMENT OF FACTS

On November 19, 2025, Metropolitan Police Department Officers Ihsan Ozdemir (driver), Westley
Grant (rear passenger) and Stephen Washington (front passenger) were in a marked DC
Metropolitan Police Department vehicle, in full Metropolitan Police Department uniform and
displaying their badges of authority. The above-mentioned officers were patrolling along with
federal Partners from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) and United States Park Police (USPP) operating marked and unmarked vehicles. The above-
mentioned officers and agents were dressed in their respective uniforms of the day displaying their
badges of authority and/or wearing ballistic vests clearly labeled "POLICE".

At approximately 8:12 PM, the officers were in the vicinity of 1200 North Capitol Street NW when
Officer Washington observed Abdul Fields (hereinafter FIELDS) standing on the 1200 block of
North Capitol Street NW. Officer Washington recognized FIELDS from prior interaction(s) and
had pre-existing knowledge that FIELDS had an open arrest warrant.

Officers detained FIELDS on the pending warrant. MPD officers then confirmed the outstanding
DC Superior Court arrest warrant for Simple Assault through WALES/NCIC as well as the 1D
dispatcher. The warrant number was 2025 CRWSLD 005049, in CCN 25143753, issued on
November 18, 2025, by the Honorable Judge Robert Salerno. Once the warrant was confirmed,
officers placed FIELDS under arrest for Simple Assault.

During a search incident to arrest, MPD officers observed a handgun in FIELDS’ front waistband.

When officers attempted to complete the search of FIELDS, he attempted to pull away by tensing
his body and pulling his arms away while trying to reach for the handgun in his waistband. After
a struggle with FIELDS in which FIELDS head-butted an MPD officer in the chest, MPD officers
were able to remove the handgun from FIELDS’ waistband.

District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences processed the firearm at MPD’s First
District station.

The recovered firearm appeared to be fully functional and designed to expel a projectile by the
action of an explosive.

The firearm was a Polymer 80, nine-millimeter, privately manufactured firearm (“PMF”), also
known as a ghost gun. The firearm was loaded with one round of ammunition in the chamber and
eleven rounds inside of a magazine with a capacity of seventeen rounds. The firearm did not have
a serial number.

A check of MPD’s firearm registration database revealed that FIELDS did not have a license to
carry a firearm in the District of Columbia.



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FIELDS has a prior felony conviction in the District of Columbia for Voluntary Manslaughter,
Superior Court Case No. 2015 CF1 3404, an offense punishable by more than one year of
imprisonment. FIELDS received a sentence of 102 months of incarceration. Accordingly, FIELDS
would have been aware that he was previously convicted of a crime punishable by a term of
imprisonment exceeding one year at the time he possessed the firearm and ammunition.

Your affiant is aware of no firearm or ammunition manufacturers in the District of Columbia.
Therefore, the ammunition described above as possessed by FIELDS necessarily traveled in
interstate commerce before it was recovered in the District of Columbia.

As such, your affiant submits that probable cause exists to charge ABDUL FIELDS with a
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (Unlawful Possession of Ammunition By a Person Convicted
of a Crime Punishable by Imprisonment for a Term Exceeding One Year) and 22 D.C. Code
§ 4503(a)(1), (b)(1) (Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Person Convicted of a Crime
Punishable by Imprisonment for a Term Exceeding One Year (Crime of Violence)).




                                                                  Police Officer Ihsan Ozdemir
                                                                Metropolitan Police Department


Respectfully submitted and attested to in accordance with the requirements of Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 4.1 by telephone on November 20, 2025


                                                        ________________________________
                                                               The Honorable Zia M. Faruqui
                                                               United States Magistrate Judge




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