Federal prosecutors have charged 20 Atlanta residents with gun and drug crimes connected to a scheme that saw 1,486 firearms stolen from shipping facilities in Conley and Macon, officials announced Tuesday. The defendants include five members of the GoodFellas gang and four convicted felons, and the case traces a pipeline that allegedly moved stolen weapons from Georgia warehouse floors straight onto city streets.
A federal grand jury returned six indictments charging the 20 defendants on September 23, according to FOX 5 Atlanta, which reported that the charges include conspiracy to traffic firearms, drug distribution, and illegal gun possession. FBI and ATF agents arrested several suspects on September 25 and again Tuesday, while seven defendants remain in local custody awaiting federal court appearances. Two men, Samuel Harris and Demontra Williams, remain fugitives, and federal authorities have not released their current locations; officials asked anyone with information about their whereabouts to contact local law enforcement.
Warehouse Break-Ins Fed a Multi-State Gun Pipeline
The theft operation allegedly began on November 29, 2025, when Tremaine Snell, Tarik Winfrey and Daveon Stillwell broke into a Conley shipping facility and stole 724 Glock pistols, then returned the next night for a second break-in at the same site. Devarrio Burns and Christopher Billings allegedly sold two of the stolen pistols to an undercover ATF agent on December 2, 2025. The thefts continued into the new year: Snell broke into a Macon shipping facility on January 10, 2026, making off with 469 firearms, and Snell and Stillwell sold four stolen guns to an undercover agent six days later. On January 16, Snell, Winfrey and Marquez Crews allegedly stole another 293 firearms from the Macon facility.
ATF Atlanta Field Division Special Agent in Charge Benjamin Gibbons said during the joint federal announcement that the GoodFellas gang and its associates allegedly distributed stolen firearms across multiple U.S. states and beyond international borders, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Investigators also tied specific stolen weapons to individual suspects: agents recovered three stolen weapons from Calvin Washington's South Fulton home on January 17, 2026, seized a stolen gun from convicted felon Shanteria Horton on April 1, and recovered additional firearms from convicted felons Samdrekas Floyd and Antonio Thomas on February 19. Crews, Snell, Temeka Camiel and Matthew Gaskin allegedly sold 14 stolen firearms to an undercover ATF agent on January 23, 2026.
Drug and Gun Raids Across the Atlanta Area
FBI and ATF agents executed search warrants at 12 Atlanta-area locations associated with the GoodFellas gang on May 13, 2026. Those searches turned up 24 kilograms of methamphetamine, 22 kilograms of marijuana, 40 grams of cocaine base and 27 grams of fentanyl, along with a pill press and additional firearms, per the same federal account.
U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said the GoodFellas gang funds its operations through drug trafficking, robbery, carjacking, fraud and firearms trafficking, and that the gang uses violence to protect its territory. The GoodFellas gang operates out of Atlanta and recruits members from local neighborhoods, jails and state prisons, prosecutors said. The case was prosecuted under the multi-agency Homeland Security Task Force, which coordinates federal and local law enforcement resources against transnational criminal organizations, violent gangs and illegal weapons pipelines, combining the ATF, FBI and local Georgia law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department noted. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, which Hertzberg leads, holds federal prosecutorial jurisdiction covering 46 counties and more than 6 million residents across North Georgia.
A Gang With a Violent Track Record in Metro Atlanta
Tuesday's indictments build on years of federal pressure against the GoodFellas gang. Federal prosecutors previously indicted gang leader Frank Hubbert and seven others on racketeering and attempted murder charges in March 2025, detailing multiple drive-by shootings and drug trafficking operations. In August 2024, federal agents raided a fortified GoodFellas trap house in West Atlanta, seizing drugs, body armor and machine gun conversion devices, a case that led to the August 2025 sentencing of gang members Corey Boyer and Antonio Smith, according to WNEG Radio.
The gang's pattern of public gunfire has drawn repeated federal sentences this year. GoodFellas member Tahj Rankine was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on April 30 for driving the getaway vehicle during a February 2021 drive-by shooting at a Southwest Atlanta gas station, where gang members fired more than 30 rounds and struck an innocent bystander in the foot. GoodFellas member De'Andre Jackson received a 15.5-year sentence on June 10 for a drive-by shooting in Clarkston that wounded a woman and two children after gang members fired roughly 50 rounds, a case Hoodline covered in its report titled Clarkston gang shooter gets 15 years.
Potential Penalties and What Remains Unknown
Firearms trafficking and straw purchasing charges under the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, enacted in 2022, carry statutory maximum sentences of up to 15 years in prison per count, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 932 and 933. Separately, possessing a firearm or ammunition as a convicted felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) carries a standard maximum penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison per count, with no parole available in the federal system.
Federal officials have not disclosed how many of the 1,486 stolen firearms have been recovered, nor have they detailed how the warehouse breaches in Conley and Macon went undetected across multiple dates. Those questions, along with the locations of fugitives Harris and Williams, remain open as the case moves toward federal court appearances for the defendants still in local custody.
