CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte gang member of the United Blood Nation was sentenced in federal court Thursday for illegally possessing and selling stolen firearms, Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said in a news release.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad ordered Dominic Xavier McDonald aka "Bombay," 28, to serve just over 15.5 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
"Convicted felons who possess firearms pose a great threat to the community," Rose said. "McDonald stole and sold firearms while he was still under court supervision for previous gun crimes. With today's outcome, we've put an end McDonald's continued disregard for the law and removed this brazen criminal from the community."
McDonald committed this offense while on supervised release for a previous federal gun conviction.
McDonald also got an extra 15 months imprisonment to run consecutively for his supervised release violations.
In December 2014, a criminal indictment charged McDonald with four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to filed documents and statements made in court.
Between Oct. 15 and Oct. 28, 2014, McDonald illegally obtained six firearms, which he then sold to other people.
McDonald has been in custody since January 2015.
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