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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that a resident of Imperial has been sentenced in federal court to three years of incarceration, followed by two years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating a federal firearms law. Twenty-two-year-old Ja’Shon Spencer was sentenced on Wednesday. According to information presented to the Court, on June 16th, 2025, Spencer possessed a Glock semiautomatic pistol equipped with a machinegun conversion device (MCD), or “Glock switch,” during a drug transaction with undercover members of law enforcement. An MCD is a device that converts a semiautomatic firearm into a fully automatic firearm. Both the MCD as well as the firearm with which the MCD is equipped are considered to be machineguns and are illegal under federal law.