Jonathan D. Ross U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Morris Anthony Campbell, 43, of North Little Rock, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The sentence was announced by Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. U.S. District Judge James M. Moody, Jr., delivered the sentence on February 3, 2026.
Campbell was previously indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts: being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On October 1, 2025, Campbell pleaded guilty to the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Moody sentenced Campbell to three years of supervised release following his incarceration. The judge also revoked Campbell’s supervised release from his prior 2020 federal conviction and ordered him to serve two years in prison concurrently with the new sentence. There is no parole available in the federal system.
According to investigators, on April 3, 2025, law enforcement officers stopped Campbell after observing him driving with fictitious tags. Officers detected the smell of marijuana during their interaction and proceeded to search both Campbell and his vehicle. During the search, they found items including scales and baggies containing pills and marijuana on Campbell’s person. In the vehicle's engine compartment, officers discovered an FN Model 509 loaded handgun that had been reported stolen; it contained a magazine loaded with 22 rounds of ammunition. "Campbell admitted to the officers that he was aware of the firearm and the marijuana."
Campbell’s criminal record includes at least three previous convictions for violent felonies or serious drug offenses—qualifying him as an armed career criminal under federal law. His past convictions include distribution charges related to cocaine base (2009), as well as a February 27, 2020 federal drug conviction for which he received more than three years’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release.
Other entries on his record involve robbery; multiple convictions for possession with intent to deliver marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; first- and second-degree terroristic threatening; and third-degree assault on a family or household member.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) led the investigation into this case with help from the North Little Rock Police Department.
