Collin County Man Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violations
Posted/updated on: February 20, 2014 at 2:51 pm
TYLER – A 52-year-old Farmersville man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales Wednesday. Charles Alan Curington pleaded guilty last Oct. 3 to attempting to sell a machine gun. Curington was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Feb. 18 by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider of Tyler.
According to authorities, Curington recruited a do-defendant, Craig Marcus Cooper, to sell a machine gun for a share of the sale proceeds. On Jan. 31, 2012, Cooper and Colten Barrow traveled together to Duke’s Truck Stop on Highway 64 in Van Zandt County to meet an individual interested in buying the machine gun. The defendants intended to sell the firearm to the individual for $10,000. However, the buyer was actually an undercover federal agent. The defendants were detained and the 9 mm, fully automatic machine gun with an attached silencer was seized. The machine gun had been reported stolen approximately 10 years earlier. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Mar. 27, 2013, charging Curington, Cooper and Barrow with firearms violations.
On Jan. 10, 2014, Cooper was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. On Jan. 15, 2014, Barrow was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
