Woman Gets 30 Months For Buying Guns For Convicted Felon
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 33-year-old former Minneapolis school cook was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in federal prison on Wednesday for acting as the straw purchaser of two handguns for a convicted felon last year in Robbinsdale.
Angela Carter was sentenced to 30 months in prison in connection with the case. She was indicted on May 12, 2014 on one count of causing a false statement to be maintained in the records of a federal firearms licensee. Carter pleaded guilty on July 28, 2014.
According to court documents, Carter bought a Ruger 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol for $355 on Jan. 21, 2014, from Bill's Gun Shop in Robbinsdale.
On Feb. 7, 2014, she went to the same shop and bought a Glock .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol, a 15-round magazine and two boxes of ammunition for $740. Court documents state that when both guns were bought, Carter listed a false address on the ATF form. Carter had moved from the address several months earlier.
According to the plea agreement, both guns were loaded when they were seized during a traffic stop of Carter's car on Feb. 10, 2014. Carter had purchased both guns to give to a man named Keniko Bland, who couldn't own a firearm due to pending charges in Hennepin County for terroristic threats. Bland had been sentenced to nearly six years in jail on Dec. 18, 2014.