CHARLOTTE — A 25-year-old Charlotte man was sentenced Thursday to 6 years and 9 months in prison for possessing a machine gun and using a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
Jeremiah Dashaun Reed will also serve three years of supervised release, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
The federal sentence follows Reed’s guilty plea in March 2026. The charges stem from two separate traffic stops in August 2024 where law enforcement officers recovered illegal narcotics and firearms, including a handgun modified to fire automatically.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers first stopped Reed on Aug. 13, 2024, after observing him carrying a firearm before conducting a traffic stop. Officers recovered a black Glock handgun that had been converted into a machine gun using a conversion device known as a Glock switch, along with more than 300 pills of controlled substances in various shapes, sizes, colors and dosages. Reed was subsequently released on bond on state charges.
Ten days later, on Aug. 23, 2024, Mint Hill Police Department officers stopped Reed’s vehicle in Mint Hill. When officers informed Reed they were searching the car, he ran away on foot before being arrested. Inside the vehicle, officers located a loaded Glock firearm with an extended magazine containing 23 rounds of ammunition under the driver’s seat, a second gun under the front passenger seat and additional narcotics and prescription drugs.
Ferguson pointed to the repeated offenses following Reed’s initial bond release.
“Ten days after being arrested on state charges, Reed was back on the streets with a gun and drugs,” Ferguson said. “Those who refuse to follow the law and change their ways after being caught will find themselves in the federal system.”
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