Overview

• Tre’Veonce Ezekiel Sanders, 19, is charged with possessing a machinegun, possessing an unregistered firearm, and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.
• Marcel Kamill Mickles, 49, is charged with possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
• Both defendants were arraigned on September 23 in Pensacola before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zachary C. Bolitho, with jury trials set for November 3 before District Judge M. Casey Rodgers.
• If convicted, Sanders faces up to 10 years on each firearms count and up to 5 years on the drug count, while Mickles faces up to 20 years on the drug charge, up to 15 years for felon-in-possession, and a consecutive five-year term up to life for the firearm-in-furtherance charge.
• The investigations involved Homeland Security Investigations, ATF, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica S. Etherton is prosecuting both cases.