Missouri Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Two Burglaries, Gun Thefts (DOJ)

ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Cristian M. Stevens on Monday sentenced one of the men who stole guns from two Jefferson County, Missouri businesses in 2020 to 46 months in prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $3,875.

Judge Stevens ordered Jynell Edward Luss' sentence to run consecutive to his 20-year sentence for second-degree murder in an unrelated case.

Luss, 25, of Jennings, pleaded guilty in January to one count of theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee. His co-defendant, Carnell Robinson, 24, of Jennings, pleaded guilty in November of 2023 to the same charge.

Both men admitted to breaking into a pawn shop in Imperial, Missouri on July 12, 2020, at about 1 a.m. They stole four AR-style rifles, a shotgun, ammunition and jewelry. The next day, also at 1 a.m., they broke into a gun store near Arnold and stole two rifles and numerous boxes of ammunition.

Luss pleaded guilty in St. Louis Circuit Court in 2025 and admitted fatally shooting a man five days after the second robbery and stealing the victim's gun.

Robinson was sentenced in February 2024 to 13 months in prison for the gun thefts. He pleaded guilty in Jefferson County Circuit Court in 2023 to burglary and stealing and was sentenced to eight years in state prison.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Boyce prosecuted the case.