ALEXANDRIA, VA. — This is an official press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)), published as received.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An Alexandria man was sentenced today to four years in prison for possessing a machinegun.
According to court documents, on April 17, 2025, Jamarion Dawon Jackson, 23, was driving on the right shoulder of Interstate 95 at more than 100 miles per hour past heavy traffic in Fairfax County when he passed a Virginia State Trooper. The Trooper activated his emergency equipment and pursued Jackson, who subsequently crashed into a parked vehicle on the right shoulder and then struck two additional vehicles on the roadway. Jackson then fled on foot and unsuccessfully attempted to enter two vehicles. Jackson then tried to jump through the open passenger side window of a third vehicle, but the driver accelerated and Jackson was injured and apprehended.
During an inventory search of Jackson’s vehicle, a Trooper recovered a loaded handgun with a 31-round magazine and equipped with a machinegun conversion device, rendering the firearm capable of fully automatic firing.
In 2022, Jackson shot a victim at the Potomac Mills Mall and fled. Jackson pled guilty to unlawful discharge of a firearm within an occupied building, felony destruction of property, and carrying a concealed weapon and was sentenced to time served and an 11-year suspended sentence. As a previously convicted felon, Jackson cannot legally possess firearms or ammunition.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Washington Field Division investigated this case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nicholas J. Patterson and Reed Sawyers prosecuted the case.
Related court documents and information are located on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:26-cr-22.
