A Brunswick man who gave a false name to a Lewiston pawn shop while trying to buy a handgun was sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
Evan Lewis, 28, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland to 2 1/2 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for having provided false information when attempting to buy the weapon.
He pleaded guilty to the charge in October.
Lewis tried to buy a semi-automatic Taurus 9 mm pistol from Double Diamond Pawn Shop on July 22, 2015, according to court documents.
He completed paperwork in which he falsely claimed his name was David Frank Lewis. He denied on the forms that he had ever been convicted of a felony crime and that he had been an unlawful drug user.
But, according to court records, in September 2014 in Iowa, Lewis had received a deferred judgment of felony possession with intent to deliver cocaine, subject to five years of probation. Court documents also said Lewis had been a user of methamphetamine.
The pawn shop refused to sell the pistol to Lewis because the name he provided on the paperwork didn’t match the name on his license, which he eventually produced for the store.
The case was investigated by the Lisbon and Auburn Police departments and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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