Hancock County, WV man sentenced for possessing stolen firearm

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.