Raleigh Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Federal Firearms and Drug Trafficking Charges

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Raleigh man was sentenced on January 14, 2022 to 360 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Cocaine, Possession of Firearms by a Convicted Felon, and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.  On October 13, 2021, a jury in Raleigh, North Carolina, convicted Keith Lamont Thompson, Jr. of all counts. 

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Keith Lamont Thompson, Jr., 27, possessed two firearms and over two ounces of powder cocaine. On July 6, 2019, officers with the Raleigh Police Department received information that Thompson was in possession of cocaine and multiple firearms at his apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Raleigh Police executed the search warrant, they learned that Thompson had ordered a female subject to hide his guns and drugs in her car. Officers searched the car and recovered 90 grams of cocaine and two firearms, including one that had been reported stolen. Further investigation revealed that Thompson was a convicted felon on active state probation for selling cocaine at the time of the July 6 search.

Thompson was subject to enhanced sentencing penalties as a career offender due to a conviction in 2014 for Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon and Second-Degree Kidnapping, and a conviction in 2018 for Possession with Intent to Sell or Deliver Cocaine.

Related court documents and information can be found on the website of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina or on PACER by searching for Case No. 5:20-CR-223-D-1.