Tag: gun trafficking
Perry James Smith, Gun and Drug Trafficking, Alabama 2022
⏱ 2 min read A Perry, Florida man is facing serious time for allegedly peddling dope and packing heat. Deontae David Bernard Watkins, 43, is accused of possessing multiple illegal drugs and a firearm with intent to distribute. Investigators believe Watkins, a convicted felon, used the gun to further his illicit trade. Watkins was arraigned…
Hosey Sells, Unlawful Sale of Firearms, West Virginia 2023
⏱ 3 min read In a brazen scheme, 59-year-old Steven Mark Hosey of Poca, West Virginia, sold guns to strangers in the parking lot of a federally licensed firearms business in Huntington. For nearly a year, Hosey operated an unlicensed firearms business, peddling pistols and revolvers to anyone who asked, without a federal license. Hosey’s…
Michael Stuckey, Gun Running, District of Columbia 2023
Michael Stuckey, 36, will spend the next 13 years and four months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a sprawling firearms and narcotics operation that flooded the streets of Washington D.C. with illegally obtained weapons, some modified for fully automatic fire. Judge Loren L. AliKhan handed down the 160-month sentence today, a stiff penalty…
Laclarence Lamarcus Anderson, Glock Switch Trafficking, South Carolina 2023
Columbia, SC – Laclarence Lamarcus Anderson, 43, will spend the next 297 months – more than two decades – in a federal penitentiary after a jury found him guilty of flooding the streets with firearms and narcotics. The career criminal’s operation, exposed earlier this year, involved selling high-powered weaponry and hard drugs directly to confidential…
Michael Stuckey, Firearms Trafficking, District of Columbia 2026
⏱ 3 min read Michael Stuckey, 36, is staring down 13 years and four months in federal prison after a two-year run pushing illegal firearms onto DC streets. Federal prosecutors sentenced Stuckey to 160 months today after he copped a plea in January 2026. The bust, a joint effort between local detectives and federal agents,…
