ALBUQUERQUE – Carlos Franco, 35, of Roswell, N.M., was
sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 27 months in
prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal
firearms laws.
Franco was
arrested on Feb. 26, 2014, on an indictment charging him with being a felon in
possession of a firearm and ammunition, on June 5, 2013, in Chaves County,
N.M. At the time, Franco was prohibited
from possessing firearms or ammunition because he previously had been convicted
of second degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
On Sept.
2, 2014, Franco pled guilty to the indictment, and admitted possessing a pistol
and multiple round of ammunition on June 5, 2013.
This case
was investigated by the Las Cruces office of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives and the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Luis A. Martinez of
the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office prosecuted this case.
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