Two Georgia men were sentenced this Friday for opening fire on federal agents and a plot to turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns, WSB-TV reported.
Anthony Maseda, 21, and Erik Arreola-Torres, 20, were arrested in early March after ATF agents raided a home in Jonesboro.
Prosecutors say that from January to March 2022, Maseda and Arreola-Torres had “conducted a firearm and machine gun trafficking operation” out of the home.
When agents went to conduct a search warrant on the home, Arreola-Torres opened fire using a “fully automatic machine gun when the investigators arrived at the home.”
The two sold a machine gun, a semi-automatic firearm, and multiple switches to an undercover informant at the home — an exchange federal officials used to obtain a search warrant.
"Officials said no one was hit or injured," WSB-TV's report stated. "When the scene was secured and both Maseda and Arreola-Torres were arrested, agents found six fully automatic machineguns, four auto sears, five firearms, and 'numerous firearm parts and magazines, ammunition, bulletproof body armor, and distribution quantities of marijuana and digital scales.'"
Maseda pled guilty to possession of a machine gun on Oct. 13, 2022, while Arreola-Torres pled guilty to possession of a machine gun and conspiracy to engage in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, and Arreola Torres was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, while Maseda will serve nine years, followed by three years of supervised release.
Read the full report over at WSB-TV.
