WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Archie Ray Arbogast, of Dunmore, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
Arbogast, 40, having previously been convicted of the felony offense “Possession of Material Use in the Manufacture of Methamphetamine" in federal court in the Northern District of West Virginia, admitted to possession of a.22 caliber rifle, in Pendleton County, West Virginia in May 2016.
Arbogast pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Possession of Firearm" in April 2017.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the United States Marshals Service, and the West Virginia State Police investigated.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
