June 21, 2012
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Convicted felon sentenced for illegal possession of assault rifle
MONTICELLO – A 32-year-old Loch Sheldrake
man has been sentenced in Sullivan County Court to four years in state
prison and five years of parole for the illegal possession of an assault
rifle.
District Attorney James Farrell said Ronald VanDuser pled guilty to criminal
possession of a weapon as a felony and admitted to possessing a fully
operational .22 caliber AK-47 assault rifle at his home in the Town of
Fallsburg on April 2, 2012.
VanDuser was sentenced as a second felony offender having previously been
convicted for felony possession of a forged instrument in 2008.
He was arrested after an investigation by the State Police Bureau of Criminal
Investigation.
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