Possession of Machine Guns Results in Federal Prison Sentences for Shreveport Men

LaDarrell C. Washington, Jr., 24, and Stacy Deshane
Borner, 22, both of Shreveport, have been sentenced for illegally possessing machine guns,
announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge S.
Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Borner to 51 months in prison, and Washington to 55 months
in prison. Each will serve an additional 3 years of supervised release following their release
from prison.
The charges in this case stem from an incident on March 28, 2022, when officers with
the Shreveport Violent Crime Abatement Team (VCAT) received information of the
whereabouts of Washington and Borner, who were fugitives out of Desoto Parish. Law
enforcement officers with the VCAT arrived at the residence in Shreveport where Washington
and Borner were suspected to be, and approached the front door. The door was open, but the
burglar bar door was shut, and officers heard what sounded like several people running
throughout the house. Officers gave commands for the occupants to come out of the house.
Eventually several occupants exited the home, including two females who leased the
residence. Borner eventually made his way out of the residence.
A search warrant was obtained for the residence and officers made entry into the
house. Inside the residence officers found Washington hiding in a bedroom closet. During the
continued search of the house, officers found numerous firearms in the bedroom where
Washington was hiding. The firearms seized were a Glock Model 17Gen4 9x19mm firearm
equipped with a Glock switch (a conversion device attached to the firearm making it a
machine gun), a Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 5.56 mm rifle with a drop-in auto sear (a
conversion device attached to the firearm making it a machine gun), a SCCY CPX-2 9mm
pistol, a Sig Sauer P320 9mm pistol, and a Century Arms AK47 rifle.
Washington, Borner, and the other occupants were taken to the police station and
interviewed. The two females advised officers that none of the firearms belonged to them and
that the males inside the residence, including Washington and Borner, arrived that morning,
each carrying at least one firearm. Through their further investigation, agents found videos
from Borner’s social media of multiple individuals shooting machine guns out of car
windows. Agents also obtained a rap video of Borner and a juvenile taking turns holding a
Glock gun with a Glock switch, including one of the guns seized from the residence.
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The seized firearms with conversion devices installed were tested by agents with the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and confirmed to be machine
guns. Washington was convicted in 2019 of illegal possession of a stolen firearm and knew
he was prohibited from possessing any firearm or ammunition. Borner pleaded guilty to
illegal possession of machine guns and Washington pleaded guilty to possession of firearms
by a convicted felon.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives and Shreveport Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant United States
Attorney J. Aaron Crawford.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together
all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and
make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. PSN is part of the Department’s renewed focus
on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership
with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop
effective, locally based strategies to reduce violent crime. To learn more about Project Safe
Neighborhoods, go to www.justice.gov/psn.