Man pleads guilty in federal court to 2022 arrest on gun charge by Youngstown police
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A man arrested in 2022 by city police pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a gun charge.
Lamont McQueen , 33, entered his plea before U.S. Judge Pamela A. Barker in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Sentencing is set for Jan. 23.
McQueen's charge stems from a June 17, 2022, arrest by Youngstown police when reports said he ran from a car that was being pulled over on Zedaker Avenue for driving very fast. He was found in a nearby backyard after he ran.
When asked if he had a gun, McQueen said he did and officers found an unloaded .40-caliber handgun on him, reports said.
Reports said a police dog was bought in to search and found a magazine for the gun in the yard where McQueen was caught.
The case was transferred to federal court in January and McQueen was indicted Jan. 30 by a federal grand jury.
In 2013, McQueen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 2012 shooting death in the driveway of his then East Lucius Avenue home when he shot a 19-year-old man as the two wrestled in the drive. He was released from prison in February, prison records show. That is the reason he is not allowed to have a gun.
