PHOENIX, Arizona — Kevin Lewis, a 38-year-old from Houston, Texas, got 8 years in prison on March 19, 2025, for running a firearms trafficking scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona reported. U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell handed down the 96-month sentence, plus 3 years of supervised release, after Lewis pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a false statement to buy guns.
Starting in February 2020, Lewis, a felon who couldn’t legally own firearms, got his wife, Karra Lewis, and brother-in-law, Isaac Godfrey, to buy them for him over a year and a half. He’d then sell the guns, mostly to folks in California. Karra got 18 months in prison, and Godfrey got 42 months—both pleaded guilty to the same charge. All three were nabbed in Houston after the feds caught on.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix led the dig, teaming up with ATF Houston, Mesa Police Major Crimes Unit, and Houston Police. They tracked how Lewis used his family to dodge the law—court docs say he’d pick out the guns, they’d fill out the forms lying about who was really buying, and he’d flip them fast. Prosecutors in Phoenix wrapped it up under case CR-23-01809-PHX-DGC.
It’s part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a push to cut gun violence by linking cops and communities. Lewis’ stash—handguns and rifles—moved across state lines, landing him the hefty stretch. He’s starting his time now, and the others are already locked up too.