Nola Reporter

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Mark Amos, age 26, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced today to serve 60 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a mandatory $100 special assessment fee. Amos previously pled guilty to illegally possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).

According to court records, on July 7, 2022, Bogalusa Police Department Violent Crimes Task Force deputies attempted to stop a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette. Amos, the driver of the Corvette, refused to stop and sped through a heavily residential area of Bogalusa at more than 100 miles per hour, disregarding traffic signs and people.

The vehicle pursuit lasted approximately five minutes before coming to an end at a residence near the intersection of Main Street and North Avenue in Bogalusa. Eventually, Amos exited the vehicle, fled, then hid underneath a nearby residence. Agents saw a backpack under the residence where Amos was hiding.

Upon searching the backpack incident to Amos’s arrest, officers found two bags of marijuana that weighed approximately 522 grams. An additional clear plastic baggie containing 2.6 grams of marijuana was recovered from Amos’s front right pocket. The backpack also contained two handguns: a Springfield Model XDM nine-millimeter pistol and a stolen Sig Sauer Model SP2022 nine-millimeter pistol.

Amos was a rap artist in Bogalusa who used the name “FG Famous” and was a close associate of another rap artist Javarious Scott, also known as “Jaydayougan,” who was shot and killed in 2022.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office (WPSO), and the Bogalusa Police Department (BPD). This matter was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Maurice Landrieu of the Narcotics Unit.