Henry Nicola Meyer

Introduction

Henry Nicola Meyer, a 26-year-old from Eunice, Louisiana, was sentenced on October 29, 2026, to 42 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and possession of five or more false identification documents. The October 2025 search that produced the evidence found him, while he was on probation, keeping a partially constructed “ghost gun,” live ammunition and eight high-quality fake driver’s licenses bearing his own photograph in a padlocked bedroom he acknowledged was his.

Background Information

The case file describes Meyer as a convicted felon who was serving a term of probation when federal investigators came to his Eunice residence. As a felon, he was legally prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition, and the false-identification count reflected a separate prohibition: manufacturing or holding fraudulent government identity documents. The prosecution was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Justice Department’s nationwide violent-crime initiative, operating here as a component of Operation Take Back America.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Pleaded guilty and sentenced. Meyer admitted both offenses in a July 9, 2026, guilty plea — a court-record admission — and U.S. District Judge David C. Joseph imposed the 42-month term and three years of supervised release on October 29, 2026.

According to court documents, on October 9, 2025, the FBI and the Eunice Police Department executed a Louisiana search warrant at Meyer’s residence while he was on probation. In a padlocked bedroom containing his personal belongings, agents discovered a partially constructed “ghost gun” — a homemade, unregistered firearm — and 25 rounds of 9mm ammunition. Meyer admitted possessing the ammunition and acknowledged he was a convicted felon prohibited from doing so.

The search also produced eight high-quality fake driver’s licenses bearing Meyer’s photograph, including licenses represented to be from Kentucky, Alaska, Colorado and Georgia. Meyer admitted he knew the licenses were fraudulent and that he intended to use them unlawfully to misrepresent his identity — the conduct behind the false-identification count, which punishes possession of five or more such documents. He pleaded guilty to both counts on July 9, 2026, roughly nine months after the search.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The plea and sentence were announced by U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Keller for the Western District of Louisiana, whose office prosecuted the case with the FBI and the Eunice Police Department. The consequences were fixed at sentencing: 42 months in federal prison — a term without parole in the federal system — followed by three years of supervised release, atop whatever residual state supervision he was serving when agents arrived. No public statement from Meyer or a defense attorney is recorded in the announcement, and his admissions came through the plea itself.

Current Status

As of the October 29, 2026 sentencing announcement, Meyer is serving a 42-month federal prison term, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The case is docketed in the Western District of Louisiana as Case Number 6:26-CR-00136. The plea resolved both counts — the ammunition possession and the false-identification possession — and there is no reported appeal.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A 26-year-old on probation at the time of the search now faces more than three and a half years in federal custody, with the conviction itself compounding the felon status that made the ammunition unlawful in the first place. The ghost gun and the eight fraudulent licenses — spanning four states’ formats — read as tools for living under borrowed identities, and the false-document conviction attaches a second federal offense to a record that was already restricting him. Meyer’s probation, meanwhile, was the circumstance that put agents at his door; the sentence forecloses any argument that his supervised status was holding him together.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Louisiana, “Eunice Man Sentenced to 42 Months in Federal Prison for Ammunition Charge and False Identification,” November 3, 2026. source