Roy Ulysses Benitez, Unregistered Firearm, Idaho 2018

A Nampa man has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for possessing an unregistered firearm.

Roy Ulysses Benitez, 26, of Nampa, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also placed Benitez on supervised release for three years after he is released from prison.

Benezit was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on December 12, 2017.

He was found guilty of the crime after a three-day jury trial in December 2018.

According to court records, on July 26, 2017, Benitez sold firearms to a confidential informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

One of the firearms was a sawed off shotgun with a barrel length of less than 16 inches.

Under federal law, it is illegal to possess certain firearms, like sawed off shotguns, unless the firearm is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.

Benitez had not registered the sawed off shotgun in that record.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

This case was prosecuted as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program.

Benitez was found guilty of possessing an unregistered firearm.

The crime occurred in Boise, Idaho on July 26, 2017.

The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/sawed-shotgun-dealer-sentenced-36-months-prison