BALTIMORE — A Baltimore man once acquitted for the murder of a Safe Streets leader is pleading guilty to federal machine gun charges.
Just a year ago police caught Garrick Powell on video concealing a weapon in his waistband.
Word got around to officers on the street, who later pulled his car over.
On the driver's side floor board was a loaded Polymer 80 handgun, converted into a fully automatic firearm.
Inside the trunk police discovered an extended magazine loaded with nearly three dozen 9mm cartridges.
Powell's prior criminal record prohibited him from carrying a gun.
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A jury, in 2023, cleared Powell of Dante Barksdale's murder.
Despite another ghost gun found under Powell's car seat, plus video and cell tower evidence, the jury wasn't convinced.
Powell now faces up to a decade behind bars for illegal machine gun possession.
A federal judge will sentence him July 16.
