Cameron Michael Williams, Unlawful Possession of Firearms, New Mexico 2023

A Mescalero Apache Nation member has been sentenced to prison for his role in a string of crimes related to firearms and methamphetamine. Cameron Michael Williams, 38, was sentenced to 47 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, as well as violating the conditions of his supervised release on a prior assault conviction.

The investigation into Williams’ crimes began in January 2013 when guests at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, N.M., reported that firearms had been stolen from vehicles parked in the Inn’s valet parking lot. Surveillance video showed Williams, who was employed as a valet parking attendant at the time, in the vehicles from which the firearms were stolen.

When the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) made contact with Williams at his home, they arrested him on tribal charges of larceny, possession of methamphetamine, resisting arrest, and intoxication. Following Williams’ arrest, the FBI executed a search warrant at his residence and found three firearms, all of which had been stolen, in his backpack.

Williams was arrested on July 1, 2013 and later entered a guilty plea to a felony information charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. The case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of the FBI and the Mescalero Agency of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.

According to the criminal complaint, Williams committed the offenses in January 2013 and was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition due to a prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon. The BIA initiated the investigation after the Inn of the Mountain Gods reported the stolen firearms.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron O. Jordan of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office. Williams was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for the firearms charges, and an additional eight months in prison for violating the conditions of his supervised release, with two months to be served concurrently and six months consecutively to the 41-month sentence.

Cameron Michael Williams is a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation and was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition due to a prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon. The exact criminal charges against Williams are being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, possession of stolen firearms, and possession of less than five grams of methamphetamine.

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