Fayetteville, Ark. – David Clay Fowlkes, acting United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced Thursday 37-year-old Trent Guida of Springdale has been sentenced to 110 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of felon in possession of a firearm.The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing Thursday in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
In January of 2020, detectives with the Fourth Judicial Drug Task Force learned Guida was staying at a hotel in Springdale. Knowing Guida had a search waiver on file, detectives located and approached him while he entered his room.
While speaking with Guida, he spontaneously admitted to everything in the room belonging to him. During the search of the Springdale man’s room and vehicle, detectives located two firearms, approximately 2.2 grams of heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Guida was indicted by a federal grand jury in July of 2020 and entered a guilty plea in December of 2020.
This case was investigated by the State of Arkansas Fourth Judicial District Drug Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney David Harris prosecuted the case for the Western District of Arkansas.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make neighborhoods safer. The Department of Justice reinvigorated the Project Safe Neighborhoods program in 2017 as part of the department’s renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. attorney’s offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally-based strategies to reduce violent crime.
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