WOMAN SENTENCED TO PROBATION FOR FIREARMS LAW VIOLATION
United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, March 28, 2008, that Brandi Smith Plummer, a resident of Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to 30 months probation, including 4 months home detention, and forfeiture of a firearm to the United States, on her conviction of violating federal firearms laws.
United States District Judge Terrance F. McVerry imposed the sentence on Plummer, age 31.
According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Margaret E. Picking, on May 7, 2005, Plummer lied on a form at the time she purchased a pistol. Plummer claimed the firearm was for herself, when, in fact, the firearm was purchased for her boyfriend, now husband, Maurice Plummer. Maurice Plummer, a previously convicted felon, entered a guilty plea to federal narcotics and firearms offenses before Judge McVerry on November 13, 2007. Among the charges to which Maurice Plummer entered a guilty plea was a charge that, on November 18, 2005, he was unlawfully in possession of the firearm Brandi Smith Plummer had purchased. Maurice Plummer is currently awaiting sentencing.
Ms. Buchanan commended the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for its investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Plummer.
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