DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff, 
v. 
LEQUAN JAHEEM PEMBERTON, 
Defendant. 
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Case No. 3:21-cr-0002 
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ORDER 
 
BEFORE THE COURT is the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge 
recommending that the Court accept Lequan Jaheem Pemberton’s (“Pemberton”) plea of 
guilty (ECF No. 22) to Count One of the Information. After conducting a de novo review of the 
record and pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Court finds 
that Defendant Pemberton entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily, and that there 
was a factual basis for the plea. The Court, therefore, will adopt the Report and 
Recommendation and find Pemberton guilty as to Count One of the Superseding Information. 
Accordingly, it is hereby 
 
ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (ECF No. 22) is ADOPTED; it is 
further 
ORDERED that Defendant Lequan Jaheem Pemberton’s plea of guilty as to Count One 
of the Information is ACCEPTED, and Defendant Pemberton is adjudged GUILTY on that 
count; it is further 
 
ORDERED that, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(c)(1)(A), the U.S. Probation Office shall 
conduct a presentence investigation for the preparation of a presentence report; it is further 
 
ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the preliminary presentence 
report to the parties no later than May 27, 2021; it is further 
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ORDERED that the parties shall submit any objections or corrections to the 
preliminary presentence report to the U.S. Probation Office no later than June 10, 2021; it is 
further 
ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the final presentence report to 
the parties and the Court no later than June 24, 2021; it is further 
ORDERED that the parties shall file their sentencing memoranda no later than July 8, 
2021; and it is further 
 
ORDERED that a sentencing hearing shall be held on Thursday, July 15, 2021, at 9:30 
A.M. in St. Thomas Courtroom No. 1.       
 
 
 
 
Date: March 15, 2021 
 
/s/_Robert A. Molloy_________ 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
ROBERT A. MOLLOY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
District Judge 
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