Mobile County Man Receives 46 Month Sentence for Possession of a Firearm After Felony Conviction

United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Deanthony T. Murphy, a 24 year old resident of Theodore, Alabama was sentenced to 46 months incarceration for possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony Assault, Second Degree. 

On June 12, 2018, according to a factual statement Murphy signed in connection with his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, on about February 23, 2018, Murphy was speeding while driving a red Pontiac Firebird on Highway 90 in Mobile County, Alabama.  Based on this traffic violation, a Mobile County Sheriff’s deputy executed a traffic stop.  The deputy asked for and received Murphy’s driver’s license.  A records check revealed that Murphy had active misdemeanor arrest warrants.  He was arrested and the vehicle was set to be towed.  During an inventory search of the vehicle, a loaded firearm was located lodged between the driver’s seat and the center console.  The firearm is described as a Jimenez Arms, 9mm pistol.  Murphy admitted that he possessed the firearm.   Also found during the search was approximately 525 grams of marijuana, a set of digital scales, and an open box of sandwich baggies.        

At that time, Murphy had been convicted of at least one felony, namely, Assault Second Degree, on March 25, 2014, in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, case number CC-2013-004639.

Special Agents of the Department of Homeland Security/ICE along with deputies of the Mobile, County, Alabama Sheriff’s office investigated the case and brought it to the U. S. Attorney=s Office for prosecution.  The prosecutor assigned to the case is Assistant United States Attorney, Gina S. Vann.