Gainesville man was guilty of owning a machine gun in drug trafficking

A man from Gainesville was guilty on Wednesday by a federal jury of possession of a machine gun for the promotion of a crime of drug trafficking.

According to a press release from the US Property Office in North Florida in Northern District Florida, the incumbent US lawyer for the northern district of Florida, Michelle Spaven, announced that Lagarius Joseph Johnson, 20, from Gainesville, was guilty by a federal jury of possession of a machine rifle to investigate a drug trading damage.

The evidence of the process showed that the deputies of the sheriff (Alachua County Sheriff's Office) and the GPD officials (Gainesville Police Department) carried out the monitoring of the majestic OAKS apartments, since Johnson and other suspects were in possession of firearms, including a machine gun, in the possession of firearms.

Due to his previous criminal history, Johnson was banned under state law to own a firearm. The law enforcement agencies identified Johnson and approached him, but Johnson turned and showed his hand in his jacket pocket, with the officials believing that he was armed with a pistol.

Officers identified themselves and Johnson fled. The law enforcement authorities later arrested Johnson with a K-9 police. When he ran, Johnson threw a backpack, a cell phone and a pistol, and the officials discovered a distribution quantity of marijuana, a digital scale and empty baggies in Johnson's backpack.

After the officials examined the Glock pistol that Johnson had, they discovered a machine gun conversion device that made the pistol fully automatic. The officials received a search command and checked material from Johnson's cell phone together with his social media accounts, which unveiled several photos of Johnson, who posed with weapons, marijuana for sale and with large quantities of cash, on the day of his arrest.

On April 16, Johnson was sentenced to distribution and possession of a machine gun during an earlier court proceedings in front of the US district court for the possession of marijuana with the intention of being distributed, possession of a firearm.

The conviction for every indictment for firearms and drug trafficking is planned on August 12th in the US court building in Gainesville at 10 a.m. in front of the US district judge for all C. Winsor.

Johnson is also not associated because he participated in the first degree first degree in the eighth judicial court in and for Alachua County, where he did not make a plea guilty and is assumed that he is innocent.

This conviction was the result of a joint investigation by ACSO, GPD, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco, Firing Weapons and Explosives and the Florida Ministry of Criminal Process. The deputy US lawyer James A. McCain and Eric what pursued the case.