05/25/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/25/2021 14:41
Judges Sentences Bureau of Prisons Inmate Busted in Gun-Selling Sting Operation
ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk sentenced Keith Delmas Thomas to 70 months in prison Monday. The 30-year-old St. Louis County, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
In February 2020, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) received information from a source that Thomas, a Bureau of Prisons' inmate, and his brother (Leonard Thomas) were attempting to purchase fully automatic firearms. The brothers negotiated a deal to purchase multiple firearms and Glock switches from undercover ATF agents in exchange for cash and methamphetamine. Thomas arranged a deal via telephone and his co-defendant met with agents. Both were arrested and multiple firearms and drugs were seized. Leonard Thomas pleaded guilty, last week, to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.