Sacramento man sentenced for selling 30 guns in undercover federal investigation
A 29-year-old Sacramento man has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for illegally selling guns, including a rifle and semi-automatic handguns, in an undercover sting.
U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Kenneth Bryant on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento announced Monday in a news release.
Bryant in September 2018 pleaded guilty to dealing firearms without a license, according to the news release.
Bryant met with an undercover agent and a confidential source on 10 occasions from September through December 2017. Prosecutors said Bryant, who was a convicted felon at the time and not licensed to sell guns, sold 30 guns to the agent and the confidential source.
The illegal gun sales included an AR-15-type rifle, a pistol and various semi-automatic handguns, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors say at least two of the sold guns did not have a serial number or other identifying markings.
This case was the result of an investigation by the by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with special help from the Sacramento Police Department and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office’s Gangs, Hate Crimes, and Narcotics unit. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Artuz prosecuted the case.
