An Auburn man who was caught illegally possessing several firearms on a train was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison.
On Sept. 3, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Mallory Nehemiah Brown, 44, of Auburn, was sentenced to 115 months in prison — a little under nine-and-a-half years — in U.S. District Court by Judge Dana L. Christensen of the District of Montana.
According to the DOJ, Brown pleaded guilty in January 2025 to one count of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm after he was found on an Amtrak train on Jan. 9, 2024, with a duffel bag containing guns and other firearm equipment. Brown was prohibited from possessing firearms after he was convicted of a bank robbery in 2004 in the Federal District Court in California, according to the DOJ.
According to the DOJ, on Jan. 8, 2024, Brown boarded an Amtrak train in Seattle bound for Washington, D.C., with a stop in Chicago, Illinois, with a duffel bag and several long boxes. On Jan. 9, the train stopped in Libby, Montana, based on complaints by other passengers about Brown, according to the DOJ.
Law enforcement then removed Brown from the train, located his bags, and discovered four firearms, ammunition, magazines, a suppressor, eight firearms receivers, night vision goggles, a tactical vest and other assorted accessories. According to the DOJ, the four firearms were identified as a .22LR HV rifle, which had a serial number; a 12-gauge pump shotgun with an obliterated serial number; a 12-gauge semi-auto shotgun with no visible serial number; and a 9mm semi-auto pistol with no visible serial number.
Brown denied the bags belonged to him, but several Amtrak employees identified Brown as the person who loaded the bags on the train, and one of the boxes had a shipping label on it addressed to “Mallory Brown,” according to the DOJ.
According to court documents, the court recommended that Brown shall participate in the Bureau of Prisons’ 500-hour residential drug treatment program, if he is eligible. The court also recommended that he serve his sentence at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, or another facility with similar psychological treatment programs.
