A Bristol woman was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday for illegally purchasing firearms for individuals she knew were felons, according to federal prosecutors.
Leah Boucher, 30, also was sentenced U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to three years of supervised release, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors, citing court documents and statements made in court, said the case stemmed from a court-authorized search of Tyrone Brown’s residence on Stevens Street in New Haven, during which they seized a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
“The investigation revealed that the firearm was registered to a family member of Boucher, and that Boucher had purchased 10 other firearms at various gun stores in Connecticut between 2018 and 2021,” federal prosecutors said in a statement. Boucher admitted to investigators that she had purchased firearms for others, and no longer had any of the 10 firearms that were registered to her, the statement said,
Authorities in September 2021 recovered from another felon one of the 10 firearms Boucher purchased, but the other nine firearms have not been found, the statement said.
Boucher was arrested on a federal criminal complaint on Oct, 15, 2021, and has been in custody since Feb. 23, 2022, when her bond was revoked, according to federal prosecutors. She pleaded guilty on April 29 to making a false statement to a firearms dealer.
Brown pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and, on Aug. 3, was sentenced to five years in prison. A second man, who was seen in a photo handling one of the guns, pleaded guilty in May to unlawful possession of firearms by a felon. He is detained while awaiting sentencing, the statement said.
