Lexington man gets sentenced over 5 years for firearm possession

LEXINGTON, Neb. — Officers stated {that a} 27-year-old Lexington man acquired greater than 5 years in jail for being a felon in possession of a firearm. 

The U.S. Lawyer introduced that Bathtub Par Kuol was sentenced on Feb. 17, in federal court docket in Omaha.

The Chief United States District Court docket Choose sentenced Kuol to 63 months in jail. 

After his launch from federal jail, Kuol will start a 3-year time period of supervised launch. There isn’t any parole within the federal system.

Court docket paperwork stated that on Jan. 29, 2022, Omaha law enforcement officials noticed a automobile fail to sign its flip.

Officers performed a site visitors cease and after they had been in touch with the automobile they noticed two open containers of alcohol.

Kuol was seated within the entrance passenger seat.

Throughout a search of the automobile, officers discovered a Glock 19x 9mm handgun with a loaded 33-round journal within the middle console.

Additional investigation confirmed the firearm was not registered with the Metropolis of Omaha.

A data test instructed officers that each Kuol and the driving force had been convicted felons and due to this fact prohibited from possessing firearms. Each had been taken into custody.

Detectives obtained a search warrant to acquire a buccal swab of Kuol’s DNA and in contrast it to DNA discovered on the firearm.

A forensic laboratory evaluation decided the likelihood of the DNA being from Kuol as 108 trillion instances extra probably than from an in any other case unknown particular person.