Morgantown Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison For Unlawful Possession of Stolen Firearms
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on June 29, 2015 via Connect-Bridgeport.com
From Office of the United State Attorney, Northern District of West Virginia
Jacob Honaker, 21, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today in Clarksburg to 33 months in prison for possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
Throughout 2014, Honaker possessed, bartered, sold, and disposed of multiple stolen firearms, including three semi-automatic pistols and five revolvers. He pled guilty in February 2015 to a criminal Information charging him with one count of “Possession of a Stolen Firearm.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Morgan prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The West Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated.
U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.