Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty
II announced that Theodore “Ted” Thomes, 55, and his wife, Renee Thomes, 51,
both formerly of Windham, Maine, now of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, pleaded
guilty this week, in U.S. District Court, to firearms charges. Ted Thomes was
convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms. Renee Thomes was
convicted of knowingly transferring firearms to a non-Maine resident.
According to evidence presented at the plea hearing, prior
to July 2011, Renee Thomes acquired several handguns belonging to a Windham
neighbor for whom the couple served as caretakers. In December 2011, Ted
Thomes, a convicted felon who had previously been convicted in Maine for being
a felon in possession of firearms, took the handguns to the home of another
neighbor. In June 2012, Renee Thomes retrieved the handguns and illegally gave
them to a New Hampshire auctioneer.
Ted Thomes faces up to 10 years in prison. Renee Thomes
faces up to five years in prison. Both face a $250,000 fine. They will be
sentenced after completion of presentence investigation reports by the U.S.
Probation Office.
The investigation was conducted by the Windham Police
Department, the Maine Attorney General’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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