Beckley man sentenced to prison for gun crime
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A man was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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According to court documents, on September 19, 2022 police officers saw that Quantel O. Saunders, 29, of Beckley, had a tucked gun in the front of his pants while outside a gas station on the 200 block of North Eisenhower Drive in Beckley. Police stopped him as he was getting back into his car. They took a Ruger-57 5.7x28mm handgun from the driver’s side floorboard of his car. He then admitted to the police that the gun was his.
According to law, a person with a prior felony is not allowed to own a gun or any type of ammo.
Saunders was aware of this because of his prior felonies for possession of a firearm by a prohibited carrier and three counts of wanton endangerment with a firearm in Raleigh County Circuit Court on August 3, 2015.
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