Ten-Time Convicted Felon Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Illegally Possessing Stolen Firearms

MOBILE, AL - A Mobile man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for illegally possessing stolen firearms as a ten-time convicted felon.

According to court documents, David Vincent Primm, 28, admitted to illegally possessing two firearms that had been reported stolen during vehicle burglaries. On March 1, 2025, police responded to a call of a vehicle break-in and theft in a residential neighborhood of Mobile. The victim had a Sig Sauer and a Glock pistol stolen from a vehicle parked in his backyard. Later that same day, a second victim who lived down the street from the first victim called police and reported that an intruder had burglarized her vehicle and stolen her debit card and driver's license. Days later, the second victim notified police that someone had incurred more than $700 in fraudulent charges on her stolen debit card at a Walmart, a hair salon, and a smoke shop. Surveillance videos from those locations depicted Primm using the victim's stolen debit card.

On March 10, 2025, police executed a search warrant to locate and arrest Primm at an apartment complex in Mobile. Officers found Primm hiding inside a bedroom closet piling clothing on top of himself. Primm briefly tried to run away from officers, who detained him and seized his cell phone to obtain a warrant to search its contents. Primm admitted to police that he had used the second victim's stolen debit card. He further admitted that an individual had given him the first victim's stolen Sig Sauer and Glock pistols to sell to another person. Primm said he received $250 for the stolen guns and kept $50 of the illicit proceeds as his "cut."

Officers searched Primm's phone, which contained pictures of the first victim's stolen Sig Sauer and Glock pistols with the serial numbers visible. Primm admitted that he took the photos of the guns as part of his effort to sell them. At the time Primm illegally possessed the stolen guns, he admitted he knew he had ten prior felony convictions, including six convictions for breaking and entering vehicles and four convictions for credit card fraud. Under federal law, Primm's felony convictions rendered his possession of any firearms unlawful.

In addition to the 33-month prison sentence, Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock ordered Primm to serve a three-year term of supervised release upon his release from prison, during which time he will be subject to drug testing and will receive mental health evaluation and treatment. The court did not impose a fine, but Chief Judge Beaverstock ordered Primm to pay $100 in special assessments.

U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama made the announcement.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Mobile Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Roller prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.