A federal judge Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old Lincoln man to five years and four months in federal prison for possessing a pair of handguns while trafficking drugs.
Brandon Escamilla, who was 19 when investigators arrested him in Lincoln in December 2020, was one of 13 members of the No Name Demons gang arrested on similar charges that winter.
Law enforcement had investigated the alleged gang members on social media, and later through their text messages, where they found videos of Escamilla displaying gang signs, guns, cash and marijuana while inside his home near 32nd and Q streets, FBI Special Agent Brandon Day said in the two-part complaint against Escamilla.
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Police served a search warrant on Escamilla’s residence Dec. 16, 2020, where they arrested him after a brief foot pursuit. Lincoln Police officers found a loaded 9 mm handgun, which Escamilla threw as he was running from the officers.
In Escamilla’s residence, investigators found 153 grams of marijuana, THC brownies, suspected MDMA pills, psilocybin mushrooms and 8 grams of cocaine, as well as $582 cash, a digital scale and a loaded Taurus 856 revolver, Day said.Â
Escamilla was convicted of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
After serving his full prison sentence — there is no parole in federal prison — Escamilla will serve three years on supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.