WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis County felon who repeatedly sold guns and drugs to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was found guilty Thursday of multiple charges.

Jurors in U.S. District Court in St. Louis found Brandon Shaw, 44, guilty of five counts of distributing a controlled substance, six counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of being an unlicensed dealer of firearms. The trial began Monday.

Evidence and testimony at the trial showed that a confidential informant arranged for Shaw to sell a firearm to an undercover ATF agent on Sept. 13, 2023. Over ...