CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto announced today that two men pleaded guilty to charges in federal court in Charleston before United States District Judge Irene C. Berger. Austin Flint, 24, of Mount Hope, pleaded guilty to making a false statement in acquisition of a firearm, admitting that on Sept. 28, 2015, he falsified a form at Shooter’s Roost in Beckley, indicating that he was the actual purchaser of three firearms when in fact he was purchasing them at the direction of another person. Flint faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 20, 2016. The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In a separate case, Elliott Tubbs Jr., 30, pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon by an inmate of a federal prison. Tubbs, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley, admitted that on Feb. 20, 2016, a staff member at the prison searched him and found a sharpened wooden object in his sock. The object, a handcrafted weapon, is commonly called a shank. Tubbs also will be sentenced on Oct. 20, 2016, and faces up to five years in prison. The Tubbs case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Assistant United States Attorney John File is handling both prosecutions.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
