MISSOULA—Flathead County resident Bruce Boone Wann was
sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release today
after he admitted to illegally possessing a machine gun and other weapons
crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
Wann, 62, of Kila, pleaded guilty in December to illegally
possessing a machine gun, an unregistered silencer, a short barreled rifle and
a destructive device, specifically, a grenade.
Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided.
Prosecution evidence showed that during an investigation
that began in June, law enforcement learned that Wann had kept buried or hidden
firearms, ammunition, a grenade, dynamite, and other items on various
properties in the Marion area. Wann claimed he had stolen some of the items
from a government bunker in California many years earlier.
Wann later broke into a Flathead County residence where he
had previously arranged for a number of his other firearms to be stored. Wann
then took not only his firearms, but also stole other firearms that did not
belong to him. Investigators also learned Wann had made various threats of
violence against people in Flathead County.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tara Elliott and Taryn Meeks, a
trial attorney with the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of
Justice, prosecuted the case. The case was investigated by the FBI, the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Secret Service and Flathead
County Sheriff’s Office.
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