Dayton man pleads guilty to stealing over 50 guns from sporting goods store

A Dayton man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Dayton for conspiring with others to steal more than 50 firearms from a sporting goods store.

Miyauhn Vineyard, 21, admitted that he and other co-conspirators stole 58 firearms from Target World in Sharonville in June 2018.

Vineyard and the other individuals parked in an adjacent parking lot and cut off an exterior door lock to the store. They then smashed display cases in the retail area of the store and stole the firearms, according to a release from the the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, David M. DeVillers.

According to court documents, two days later, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recovered 10 of the firearms stolen by the defendant through a third-party sale.

Vineyard pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

The release stated this case is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts.

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