ANCHORAGE — A 41-year-old felon convicted of carrying a loaded gun in Alaska has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.<\/p>\n
Ryan Matthew Neely of Woodenville, Washington, pleaded guilty in October to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced Monday.<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors said Neely was detained Feb. 20, 2018, when he attempted to carry a gun through airport security in <\/a>Juneau<\/a>. Transportation Safety Administration screeners spotted the weapon in a duffel bag.<\/p>\n Neely told officers he had no knowledge of the gun and that he had grabbed the duffel from someone else.<\/p>\n At the Juneau Police Department, he presented stolen identification.<\/p>\n Police established his true identity and learned he had prior convictions for theft, possession of stolen mail and identify theft.<\/p>\n \u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n He’ll serve 21 months in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":48224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48223"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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