Marvin Meux, 45, a Gangster Disciples gang member from West Memphis, was sentenced Thursday to 17½ years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm in October 2015, U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland announced Friday.
Hiland and Jeffrey Reed, resident agent in charge of the Arkansas office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. was partly due to Meux’s status as an armed career criminal. Under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, enhanced penalties are required for anyone previously convicted of three or more violent offenses or serious drug offenses.
Meux was indicted on June 18, 2016, and pleaded guilty to the firearms charge on Aug. 25. The indictment followed his arrest by state authorities on Oct. 21, 2015, after West Memphis police received a call about two people being held at gunpoint while attempting to repossess a car registered to Meux. According to Hi-land and Reed, Meux jumped in the driver’s seat of the car while one of the repossession employees was still in the passenger seat. Meux then drove home, got out and pulled a gun on the employee as the employee exited the vehicle. That employee and the other employee then got into their truck and drove away while Meux pointed a gun at them, according to a news release.
It says that upon searching Meux’s home, West Memphis police found an SKS assault rifle and a .38-caliber revolver.
Meux’s sentence is to be followed by three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
The investigation was conducted by the West Memphis Police Department and the ATF and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Liza Brown and Michael Gordon.
