Jury Convicts Boston Man of Dealing Firearms

BOSTON – A Boston man was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury in Boston of dealing firearms.

Deon Young, 33, of Hyde Park, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to sell firearms without a license and one count of dealing in firearms without a federal license.  U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock scheduled sentencing for April 10, 2018.

On Sept. 19, 2016, without being licensed to do so, Young and co-conspirator Troy Armstrong sold a Colt .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol to a cooperating witness working with federal law enforcement. On Oct. 4, 2016, Young and Armstrong again sold a firearm - a Hi-Point model, .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol - to the same cooperating witness.  Both illegal transactions took place in the Bunker Hill Housing Authority neighborhood of Charlestown and were captured on covert surveillance cameras. 

In September 2017, Armstrong was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The charges of conspiracy and dealing in firearms without a federal license each provide for a sentence of no greater than five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.  Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Mickey D. Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boston Field Division, made the announcement.  Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lori Holik, Chief of Lelling’s Major Crimes Unit, and Nicholas Soivilien, also of the Major Crimes Unit, are prosecuting the case.