Luzerne County Man Sentenced To 48 Months’ Imprisonment For Firearm Trafficking Offense

SCRANTON- The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeremy Shea, age 35, of Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 48 months' imprisonment and two years of supervised release by United States District Judge Julia K. Munley for one count of firearms trafficking conspiracy.

According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Shea previously pled guilty to conspiring with three co-defendants to traffic at least three firearms from April of 2022 to on or about July 9, 2024, in Luzerne County, and elsewhere. Shea further admitted that as part of the conspiracy, he picked up three firearms from a hotel room occupied by his brother, Justis Shea, after his brother was arrested on an unrelated case. Jeremy Shea then safeguarded those firearms in his house with the intent to transport, transfer, or otherwise dispose of those firearms to others. While his brother was incarcerated, he directed Jeremy Shea to sell or otherwise dispose of the firearms. When investigators executed a search warrant at the Shea' house in Glen Lyon, they found an American Tactical AR-style rifle with a Bushell mounted optic, a short-barreled AR-style personally-made firearm with an overall length of less than 16 inches, a .22 caliber EIG model E 15 six-shot revolver, AR-style magazines, ammunition, and drug paraphernalia in Jeremy Shea's bedroom.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Kingston Police Department, the Wilkes-Barre Police Department, the Pittston Police Department, the Luzerne County Drug Task Force, and the Luzerne County District Attorney's Office investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Buchanan prosecuted the case.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America (https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1393746/dl?inline) 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.

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