Source: United States Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
MINNEAPOLIS – Today, Jorge Olivares, a/k/a “Stomper,” age 23, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 50 months of imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.
“The defendant is a violent member of the Latin Kings who has repeatedly shot people and brought violence to our streets,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “Even after spilling blood, he armed himself again, showing utter disregard for the law. The people of Minnesota deserve safety—not shootouts. Whether it’s the Highs, the Lows, the Bloods, or the Latin Kings, at the federal level we will continue to use every tool we have to put violent gang members behind bars.”
Jorge Olivares is a convicted violent felon and member of the Latin Kings street gang. In December 2023, amid high levels of violence in Minneapolis, Minneapolis Police officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle. They found Oliveres asleep in the vehicle’s driver’s seat and saw a firearm—a Springfield Armory Hellcat 9mm semiautomatic pistol—on the car’s floorboard. The pistol was ready to fire, with a round loaded in the chamber and twelve rounds in the magazine, and was within easy reach of the defendant. Officers also found more than 6 grams of cocaine in the car. When he was arrested, Olivares was wearing a sweatshirt reflecting his ongoing affiliation with the Latin Kings.
At sentencing, the government argued that Olivares’s unlawful possession of a firearm posed a considerable risk to the community in light of his extremely serious and violent criminal history. In 2018, Olivares was convicted of first-degree aggravated assault and first-degree aggravated robbery, after Olivares shot two victims and stole their car. In another incident recorded on video, Olivares carried out a drive-by shooting of a residence while yelling the gang slogan “King Love” and flashing a gang sign.
At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery told Olivares that it was “scary to look at the record and see the violence in your past,” noting that when she sees “a pattern of individuals that keep coming back” to court and the violence escalates, that “it doesn’t usually end well.”
This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) with assistance from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the United States Marshals Service (USMS), the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), and the Richfield Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David B. Green prosecuted the case.