Elk Grove’s David Guevara-Pimentel, 24, is locked up for a decade after flooding the streets with 49 untraceable guns and flooding buyers with meth, cocaine, and heroin. He was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for dealing firearms without a license, illegal possession of a machine gun, and distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott confirmed.
Court documents lay bare a relentless black-market operation. Between August 11, 2014, and April 29, 2015, Guevara-Pimentel conducted 19 separate transactions with an undercover agent—each a cold exchange of weapons and poison. He sold a short-barreled shotgun, an unserialized AR-15-style rifle, and multiple handguns, many stripped of serial numbers, erasing their history and arming criminals by design.
But it wasn’t just guns. On numerous occasions, Guevara-Pimentel handed over drugs alongside deadly steel—methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin changed hands in the same shadow deals. These weren’t isolated sales; they were part of a calculated pipeline pushing addiction and violence across Northern California.
The final count: 49 firearms sold, each slipping through legal cracks, each capable of ending a life. When federal agents moved in January 2016, they found Guevara-Pimentel in possession of a fully automatic machine gun—a weapon of war, illegal for civilian possession, and another testament to the scale of his operation.
This takedown was the result of a grinding, multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, with critical support from the West Sacramento Police Department and the Woodland Police Department. The collaboration cut through layers of street-level deception and dismantled a supply chain that threatened public safety for over a year.
Guevara-Pimentel’s 10-year sentence lands at a crossroads of accountability and deterrence. Federal prosecutors made no concessions—stripping away the glamour often tied to the gun and drug trade and serving up a raw verdict: deal in death, pay with your freedom.
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Weapons|Drug Trafficking|Organized Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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