On February 27, 2025 Keon Steele, 20, and his girlfriend Anna Mack, 22, were convicted after Keon sold glock switches to undercover cops in Charlotte, NC. Follow Charlotte Alerts on Instagram.
Keon is a convicted felon and could not posses a gun. But he illegally possessed a machine gun via being a straw purchaser of firearms.
According to court documents and court proceedings, between May and June 2023, Steele sold multiple firearms to undercover officers.
Specifically, on July 6, 2023, Steele communicated to an undercover officer that he had two firearms and two Glock switches for sale.
A Glock switch is the common name for an illegal device that coverts a conventional firearm into a machine gun. Law enforcement arrived at the meeting location and observed Steele and Mack waiting inside a vehicle. The defendants were arrested and taken into custody.
Law enforcement also searched the vehicle and found a backpack that contained a Glock 42, .40 caliber pistol outfitted with a Glock switch, and an additional Glock switch.
During the investigation, law enforcement determined that, on June 13, 2023, Mack purchased two firearms, a Glock 22 and a Glock 48, from a federal firearms dealer in Gastonia.
Mack completed ATF Form 4473 in connection with the firearms purchases. As Mack later admitted in court, she lied on the form, falsely representing that she was the actual transferee/buyer of the firearms when, in fact, she was buying the firearms for Steele.
Court records show that Mack straw purchased at least seven firearms for Steele within a span of a few weeks.
On June 27, 2024, Steele pleaded guilty to possession of a machine gun. On April 4, 2024, Mack pleaded guilty to making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
Steele was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Mack was ordered to serve 24 months on probation under court supervision.
