AUBURN — A local man admitted Monday in federal court to having a gun after a domestic violence conviction.
Kenneth Sales, 23, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to a charge of possessing a firearm after he had been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
Police responded May 6 to a report of a possible stabbing at a home where they found the victim sitting in a car with Sales.
As he got out of the car, police saw a Hi-Point .45-caliber ACP pistol on the driver’s seat where he had been sitting, according to court records.
He later admitted to police that the gun was in his possession. He was barred from having firearms at that time because he had been convicted of the domestic violence charge in a Vermont state court, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.
Sales faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. His sentencing will be scheduled after a presentencing report has been completed by the U.S. Probation Office.
The investigation was conducted by the Auburn Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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