CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- An East St. Louis, Ill., man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Tuesday afternoon for illegally possessing firearms stolen during a burglary at Instapawn on Highway NN and in connection with two unrelated carjackings.
Norlando Jackson, 20, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison on the felonies of possession of stolen firearms, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and two carjackings by U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr., according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Sorrell.
Upon Jackson's release from prison, Sorrell said, he will be placed on three years of supervised release.
Sorrell said Limbaugh also ordered Jackson pay $57,169.10 in restitution.
With his earlier plea, Jackson admitted on Feb. 27, 2017, a firearms dealer known as Instapawn was broken into by several individuals and more than 60 firearms were stolen during the burglary.
The investigation reportedly revealed at least five persons were involved with the burglary and theft.
"Norlando Jackson was a person who entered that store and took firearms, as well as Germonde Brunner, Arlandus Howard, Antywan Seawood and Demarlon Richardson," according to the plea agreement signed by Jackson.
Jackson, Brunner, Howard and Seawood reportedly took their stolen firearms back to their home in East St. Louis, while Richardson took his stolen firearms to his Poplar Bluff home.
Further, Jackson admitted on Feb. 26, 2017, a woman was sitting in her 2013 Mazda 3 outside her Clayton, Mo., home when four men walked up to her car.
"The four men decided to take her car," the plea agreement further said. "Jackson and the other men approached (her) car and demanded that she get out.
"When that didn't happen immediately, Norlando Jackson took out a pistol and pointed it at (the woman)."
The woman, who reportedly was afraid for her life, unlocked her door and was thrown out of the car.
"Jackson got in the driver's seat, and the other three men got in the car and drove away," the plea agreement said.
Three days earlier on Feb. 23, 2017, another woman was walking in the dark between her 2008 Ford Fusion and an apartment building in St. Louis.
"She was accosted by Norlando Jackson, who pointed a pistol at her and demanded her car," the plea agreement said. "Jackson was with two other men, Arlandus Howard and Antywan Seawood."
The woman reportedly gave Jackson a different set of keys and ran to the door.
"When Jackson and the other men found that they had been given the wrong set of keys, they ran back to (the woman), knocked her to the ground, assaulted her and took her car keys.
"Jackson and the other two men then took the Ford Fusion ..."
According to earlier reports, Howard was convicted by a federal jury in February of the firearms theft and the Clayton carjacking. The 21-year-old is set to be sentenced June 12.
Seawood, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to the felonies of aiding and abetting the possession of stolen firearms, aiding and abetting in a carjacking and aiding and abetting in the possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a crime of violence. He is be sentenced July 31.
The maximum imprisonment for the theft of the firearms is 10 years and for carjacking is 15 years.
The maximum punishment for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence is life. That charge reportedly carries a minimum of seven years and any sentence must be served consecutively to any other sentence imposed against the defendant.
Richardson earlier pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for illegally possessing the firearms stolen from Instapawn.
Brunner was sentenced earlier this month to 48 months on the felonies of possession of stolen firearms, aiding and abetting a carjacking and aiding and abetting the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.