Let's see how long a sentence he gets, and how long he serves.
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From The Pottstown, PA Mercury:


Man who allegedly stole guns during KOP show charged


Monday, April 27, 2009
By Keith Phucas, Journal Register News Service

PHILADELPHIA — A Yeadon man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly trying to sell firearms stolen from a weapons dealer following a gun show in King of Prussia last year.

Leon Booker, 31, was allegedly caught selling five machine guns and another firearm that had been taken from a licensed firearms dealer’s truck as he ate dinner after the Dec. 21 show at the Valley Forge Convention Center. A total of 26 guns were reported stolen from the dealer that Sunday.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the defendant is charged with one count of illegally dealing in firearms without a license, three counts of possessing and trafficking stolen firearms, three counts of possessing a machine gun and three counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

In early January, Booker allegedly told an unnamed person known to a grand jury, that he bought the “lot” of weapons at the Valley Forge gun show for $8,000, according to federal authorities. He told the person he was offering all of the guns, and silencers, for sale.

Around the same time period, Booker reportedly drove to a Philadelphia club to sell two stolen International Armament Madsen 9 mm machine guns, Model 1950, that were hidden in his truck.

Booker went into the club to meet with the prospective buyer and allegedly agreed to sell the two machine guns for $6,500, prosecutors said. Later that same night, a buyer allegedly paid the asking price for the two firearms.

Several days later, Booker allegedly drove to the same buyers' workplace and delivered a fully automatic, Hungarianicon, 7.62-caliber machine gun and a semiautomatic Telko Rifle, and the seller agreed to be paid at a later date.

Eventually weeks later, he offered to sell firearms to the same buyer and an undercover Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent, who was posing as a pawnbroker, in the Philadelphia club’s parking lot, according to federal authorities.

The defendant took a $1,000 cash deposit on two “fully automatic” guns he was offering for $8,500, according to prosecutors. Days later, the undercover ATF agent again met with Booker and allegedly paid him an additional $1,500 for the weapons he picked up days earlier, officials said.

During a third meeting, the ATF agent allegedly paid the defendant $4,200 in cash, the remaining balance owed for the stolen merchandise.

At the time the Yeadon man sold the weapons, he told the buyer they were stolen, officials said. Booker’s previous criminal record prohibited him from legally owning a gun, officials said.

If convicted, Booker faces a maximum sentence of 100 years in prison and a $2.5 million fine.

The case was investigated by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in conjunction with the Upper Merion Township Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Abrams.
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