Narendrakumar ‘Nick’ Patel was sentenced by US District Court in Montgomery, Alabama, to 15 months in federal prison for being an “alien unlawfully in possession of a firearm.”
Forty-five-year-old Patel was tried and convicted by a jury in April for allegedly possessing a loaded Omega, Model 32, .32 Smith and Wesson Calibre, Revolver on October 30, 2008. He was sentenced on Tuesday last.
During a search operation, law enforcement found the loaded firearm lying on a shelf above the cash register in Patel’s former business, the Pit Stop, in Millbrook, Alabama. Subsequent investigation revealed that Patel had illegally entered the US in the mid-1990s.
(Published 17 July 2010, 15:52 IST)
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