Skip to main content
Press Release

Hancock County, WV man sentenced for possessing stolen firearm

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of West Virginia

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Timothy J. Jackson, 56, of Newell, West Virginia, was sentenced today twelve months and one day in prison for possession of a stolen firearm. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Jackson was discovered in Hancock County, West Virginia in December 2014 in possession of a stolen .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol. He pled guilty in August 2015 to one count of “Possession of a Stolen Firearm.” 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Vogrin prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Hancock, Brooke, Weirton Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.
 
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated January 8, 2016
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

Related Content

Press Release
West Virginia’s U.S. Attorney’s Offices to Work with Local Partners to Reduce Domestic Violence

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has approved an initial set of 78 communities across 47 states, territories, and the District of Columbia for designation under Section 1103 of the Violence...

Press Release
Inmate Charged with Assaulting Officers

Mark Randall Harken, 42, an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer, was indicted by a grand jury today on four counts of assault of a correctional officer resulting in bodily...

Press Release
New York Man Admits to Passing Counterfeit Cash in Marshall County

Travis Bayne, 32, of Brooklyn, New York, has admitted to using counterfeit money at several businesses in Marshall County. According to court documents, Bayne passed several $20 counterfeit bills for...