The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee has announced that Kelly D. Girty, Jr., 30, of Gore, was sentenced to 46 months for illegally possessing a firearm.

The court reportedly ordered the federal sentence to run consecutive to state sentences Girty received in the District Court of Sequoyah County.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

On May 2, Girty pleaded guilty to one count of felon in possession of a firearm. According to investigators, on Jan. 7, a Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s deputy conducting a routine traffic stop discovered Girty in possession of a .22 caliber bolt action rifle.

At the time of the stop, Girty had been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year and was prohibited from possessing firearms.

The Honorable John C. Coughenour, Senior U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing.

Girty will remain in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending transportation to a designated Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.