Selling Fake Ecstasy, Machine Guns To AFT Agent Results In Prison Time

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Two men, including a 26-year-old Fredericksburg man, were sentenced in federal court for trying to sell methamphetamine and machine guns last December to a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

On Dec. 20, 2023, Trey Wright of Fredericksburg and 26-year-old Damien Jahon Reynolds of Woodford were arrested after selling bogus "ecstasy" pills, which were later identified as methamphetamine. Court records said the men also sold 12 machine gun conversion devices, and two privately made firearms equipped with two additional conversion devices to the ATF special agent.

Reynolds pleaded guilty on April 25 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of machine guns. He was sentenced on Nov. 21 to 12 years and seven months in prison, according to court documents.

Wright, who pleaded guilty on April 24 to distribution of methamphetamine and possession of machine guns was sentenced on Tuesday to two years and six months in prison, court records say.