Three Portland men -- all convicted felons -- are accused of illegally possessing the same stolen gun after each posed with it in a public music video on YouTube, according to federal court indictments.

Christopher Eugene Miller, 28, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to a two count-indictment, charging him with being a felon in possession of a stolen Taurus model .45-caliber handgun on June 16, 2018. Miller was previously convicted in 2007 of unlawful use of a weapon in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

Kebrin Larry Jones, 27, who was arraigned last week, and Desmond Boris Washington, 34 , who was arrested in late 2018, previously entered not guilty pleas to the same charges. All three remain in custody.

Jones was convicted in 2013 of possessing a prohibited gun or silencer.

The .45-caliber pistol, with a black handle and silver slide, had been reported stolen from a storage locker in Tualatin in March or April 2017, prosecutors said.

Officers found it when a Homeland Security Investigations agent executed a warrant to search the apartment of Washington’s girlfriend in Portland on Oct.10, 2018, according to a federal affidavit. It was in a bedroom dresser drawer with a loaded magazine and no bullets in the chamber, according to the affidavit.

The gun was beside Washington’s personal belongings, including a gold dental grill, several gold necklaces and an “i5da.p” pendant, his rap music moniker, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax.

Washington and his girlfriend each denied the gun was theirs, according to the affidavit. A federal agent, however, found photos on Washington’s Facebook page of him holding guns, including one that appeared to be the Taurus .45-caliber pistol.

Police arrested Desmond B. Washington after searching his girlfriend’s apartment. They said they found a .45-caliber gun in the master bedroom’s dresser drawer, beside Washington’s personal belongings, including a gold dental grill, several gold necklaces and an “i5daP” pendant, his rap music moniker.

In a court hearing in October 2018, Sax identified Facebook photos of Washington wearing a red bandana and holding a gun with another red bandana tied to it. Sax said the images revealed the defendant’s "brazen wearing of his gang colors'' and ties to the Deuce Four Inglewood Blood gang as he urged a judge to keep Washington in custody pending trial.

Sax then also submitted snapshots of Washington posing with guns in YouTube music videos and cited the hashtags on Washington's Instagram profile, which included #blood gang, #inglewood bloods and #shooter.

Washington’s defense lawyer, Susan F. Wilk, criticized what she called the government’s "speculative and misleading'' characterizations of her client’s alleged gang ties, arguing at the 2018 hearing that they were based on a "troubling pyramid of insinuations and assumptions'' and race-based profiling drawn from Washington’s social media posts that reflected his work as a rap artist and performer.

In contrast, she provided the court with pictures of Washington standing with his arms around his children, accompanied by the hashtag #fatherlove. Although Washington had been involved in street gangs when he was younger, he’s eschewed those ties and is focused on creating music and being a father, Wilk said.

Washington was ordered to remain behind bars in late October 2018 after a prosecutor cited his 12 prior convictions, including seven felonies – among them an earlier case of being a felon with a gun, attempting to elude police, unlawful use of a weapon and delivering cocaine. Washington failed to appear in court on eight occasions, violated his supervision three times and had his state probation revoked in the last 18 months for having a gun, Sax told the court then.

A three-day trial on the gun possession charges has been set for March 3 for Washington, Miller and Jones.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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