A jury needed less than 20 minutes of deliberation before finding Selma native Andrae Darrell Brown guilty on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges recently.

Brown, who was tried in United States District Court in Mobile, was found guilty of possessing with the intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a loaded 9 mm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

The charges stemmed from a July 2010 incident at a Selma nightclub.

The guilty verdict, District Attorney Michael Jackson said, shows that drug and weapons crimes in Dallas County will not be tolerated. Jackson applauded the efforts of federal agents in conducting the investigation.

“This is another drug dealer that is going off to prison for a long time due to great work by the feds and local law enforcement,” he said.

Brown faces up to five years in prison on the drug trafficking charges and a minimum statutory mandatory consecutive sentence of five years on the firearms conviction.

The case was investigated by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives with assistance from the Alabama Attorney General’s Office and the Fourth Judicial Drug Task Force.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Christopher B. Brinson and Gregory A. Bordeukircher on behalf of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama.

Brown will be sentenced Sept. 23 at 1:30 p.m. and remains incartcerated pending sentencing.