A former Gastonia police officer who last year pleaded guilty to 12 felonies is facing new federal charges for buying a gun and giving it to someone else, according to an indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Xana Dayanae Dove told Belmont gun shop owners at Shooter Express that the pistol she was buying was for herself, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson. Then she gave it to someone else, prosecutors allege, violating state and federal law.
In November, Dove pleaded guilty in Gaston County to a dozen felony charges related to illegally accessing police computer systems and helping someone deceive a polygraph test, The Gaston Gazette reported. She became a suspect in that case when officers found that she sent a confidential photo to a suspected drug trafficker, Gaston County District Attorney Travis Page told the Gazette…