From staff reports
A former Oil City resident has been sentenced in federal court to two and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced Friday in a Department of Justice news release.
Emmett Freshcorn, 30, on Wednesday was sentenced on one count of possession of firearms by convicted felon, the release said.
In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that on Dec. 11, 2017, Freshcorn, who is a convicted felon, went into a gun store with another individual and gave that individual money to purchase a BMG .50 caliber rifle, and then Freshcorn carried the rifle out of the store and took possession of it, the release said.
In October 2018, Oil City police Chief Bob Wenner told the newspaper that several firearms were recovered from a residence in the 300 block of Washington Avenue.
“It was a joint investigation between the ATF, the state police and ourselves,” Wenner said at the time. “It’s just a perfect example of cooperation between state, federal and local officers and how effective it can be, because the very nature of the criminal element right now is interstate.”
Wenner also said in October that Freshcorn spent most of his time between the Washington Avenue residence and his farm in Ashland Township, Clarion County.
The Ashland Township farm was the subject of a 2017 investigation that resulted in Freshcorn pleading guilty to five counts of cruelty to animals.
Freshcorn was found to have been in Pittsburgh, and he told state troopers he had been there for about two months.
