COEUR D’ALENE—Chauncey Franklin Whitright,
IV, 33, of Plummer, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District
Court in Coeur d’Alene to illegal possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Wendy
J. Olson announced.
According to the plea agreement,
Whitright is prohibited from possessing ammunition because of his prior felony
conviction for robbery on May 10, 2000 in Lake County, Montana. On December 11,
2011, while at another individual’s home on the Coeur d’Alene Indian
Reservation, Whitright shot a handgun in the front yard and back yard. The
defendant left the scene before police arrived. Coeur d’Alene Tribal police
responded to the 911 call and interviewed witnesses. During the investigation,
officers collected five spent shell casings marked “S&B 9mm.” Because this
ammunition was manufactured in the Czech Republic, it traveled in foreign and
interstate commerce.
The charge is punishable by up to 10
years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, and up to three years of
supervised release.
Sentencing is set for July 24, 2012
before Chief U.S. Chief District Judge Lynn B. Winmill at the federal
courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
The case was investigated by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and Coeur d’Alene Tribal Police.
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