RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday for possession of a machine gun.
According to court documents, on April 7, 2023, 29-year-old Perry Ike Mason entered a car and took out a .40 caliber handgun with a machine gun conversion device (MCD) from his jacket, a weapon-mounted laser and an extended magazine — displaying it on a social media livestream.
The Richmond Police Department detectives viewed the video and found there was an outstanding arrest warrant for Mason from the Chesterfield County Police Department for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon from August 2022.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Mason later posted another video showing off the same gun.
The DOJ confirmed that detectives found Mason’s location to be at a restaurant in Chesterfield Towne Center — they witnessed Mason getting into a car in the parking lot and followed him to a home on Kimrod Road in Richmond. Mason then exited the car and went to a shed behind the home, where the officers arrested him for the outstanding warrant.