19-year-old pleads guilty to federal drug and gun offenses
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – DaMorie Lamontay Miles, 19, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and one count of receipt, possession, transfer, or production of a firearm that is not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced the guilty plea.
U.S. Attorney Heekin said, “Running with drugs and illegal firearms in the Northern District of Florida is a one-way ticket to federal prison, and my office is more than happy to send this felon on his way. Operation Take Back America is a promise to U.S. citizens that the Department of Justice will devote maximum resources toward keeping our streets safe and drug-free, and my office will continue to deliver on that promise with successful prosecutions like this one.”
Original arrest
Miles was arrested on September 3, 2025 in Gainesville on state charges of selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school and maintaining a structure for the purpose of selling drugs after a search warrant was executed on his residence while he was on house arrest. He was later charged with attempted premeditated homicide, shooting into a dwelling, and conspiracy to commit murder after Gainesville Police Department officers alleged that he had sent two juveniles to shoot into an occupied residence.
Court records reflect that the defendant was communicating via text message and social media with others to buy and sell marijuana and to obtain a machine gun conversion device (MCD). The MCD and 600 grams of marijuana were found when the search warrant was executed at his residence.
If convicted on all counts, Miles faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
The case is being jointly investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Gainesville Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Christie S. Utt.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.
By Punk Thug!
HOPE YOU GET 10 YEARS!
What an idiot. FRY HIM!
A good start to end the “gun violence emergency” here in the GNV & Alachua County…
There’s a violence memorial at squirrel park on 5/30/26.. there’s an article about the memorial in today’s’ AC…
“National Firearms Registry”? I thought there was not supposed to be such a thing 🤔
If you buy a gun through any retail business there is a record that kept in a database and some states gave the same thing. The government unfortunely knows everything you do just paying taxes, flock cameras. Tag readers, etc. If you are doing things legal I guess there is no problem if not you will get burned eventually. And hopefully the government will not turn these data collections against the U.S. citizens.
This does not refer to a registry of all firearms, but certain firearms, such as machine guns (as in this case), must be registered.
Smells like lynch mob after breath.
fyi- hate to bust everyone’s excitement bubble. But I heard the federal sentence, whatever it is, has been agreed to run concurrent with his state sentence. Rumor is that after Judge Colaw gave this defendant 20 years in prison on his violation of probation case and then had this case set for trial, the defendant and defense attorneys begged the feds to take this case to avoid additional time. So the feds picked it up and have agreed that his sentence will be concurrent to the 20 years in state prison so that no federal resources get used to incarcerate him. Which is pathetic on the feds imo