Hinds County Man Pleads Guilty to Possesion of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon

Jackson, MS -- Richard Brian Williams, age 31, formerly of Byram, MS, pleaded guilty to Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain. Williams admitted that on January 20, 2017, he possessed two handguns: a Taurus .45 caliber pistol and a Colt .22 caliber Derringer, after previously being convicted in several Mississippi circuit courts of the following felonies: Auto Burglary in 2003, Burglary of a Dwelling in 2004 and again in 2005, Robbery in 2009, and Introduction of Contraband into a Correctional Facility in 2015.

Williams is currently detained in the Madison County Jail and will be sentenced on September 29, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Mississippi Department of Corrections. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Carla Clark.