Keith Harris, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Arkansas 2023

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Local Man Convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm

LITTLE ROCK—A federal jury convicted a Sherwood man who illegally possessed a firearm after a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberation, the jury convicted Keith Harris, 24, of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The conviction comes after a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Harris on November 8, 2023, charging him with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury returned the verdict to United States District Court Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr., who will sentence Harris at a later date. Harris will remain in federal custody pending sentencing.

The statutory penalty for being a felon in possession of a firearm is not more than 15 years imprisonment.

Harris was convicted by the state of Arkansas in 2019 for being a felon in possession of a firearm following an incident at a gas station in North Little Rock that resulted in the murder of a U.S. Air Force airman during an armed robbery. Harris, who was 18 at the time, was initially arrested for capital murder and aggravated robbery before pleading guilty to the lesser charge after police identified him as one of the four people involved in the incident.

Harris received five years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and was paroled in October 2021. Harris was also convicted as an adult of two counts of theft of property by threat of serious physical injury following an incident in 2016.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with assistance from the Little Rock Police Department. Assistant United States Attorneys Lauren Eldridge and Amanda Fields prosecuted the case.

Harris was taken into custody after a law enforcement officer with the Little Rock Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a Dodge Challenger for speeding on October 26, 2022. Officers learned that Harris, who was a passenger, was on active parole with a search waiver on file. Harris was asked by law enforcement officers to step out of the vehicle to conduct a search of his person and the area of the car where he was seated. During a search of the vehicle, law enforcement officers located a Glock, model 22, .40 caliber firearm under the seat where Harris had been sitting.