College Student Gets 16-Month Sentence for Gun Theft (VA)(Greentop)
Bruce Jackson
College Student Gets 16-Month Sentence for Gun Theft
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 16, 2008; 3:29 PM
A federal judge in the District sentenced a 22-year-old college
student to 16 months in prison today for stealing guns from a Virginia
sporting goods store and then selling them to drug dealers,
prosecutors said.
Leon Waddy of Southeast Washington and an accomplice, Michael
Henderson, also 22, broke into the Green Top Sporting Goods Store in
Glen Allen, Va., on June 13 and stole 34 semiautomatic handguns,
prosecutors said. They traveled to Waddy's apartment in Southeast
Washington and divided up the guns, prosecutors said.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
arrested Henderson on June 20 after he sold several of the guns in
Maryland, prosecutors said.
The following day, prosecutors said, federal agents and D.C. police
raided Waddy's apartment and found two of the stolen handguns. Waddy,
who was a student at Winston Salem University in North Carolina prior
to his arrest, told investigators that he sold all but two of his 17
guns to drug dealers, prosecutors said.
Henderson, a former quarterback at Virginia Union University, was
sentenced to 18 months in prison last week by a U.S. District judge in
Greenbelt. Both men were also ordered to pay a total of $22,610 in
restitution to the store.
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