A 43-year-old Pasco man will spend almost two decades in a federal prison after admitting to unlawfully possessing a gun and threatening a federal official.
Richard Lee Conn was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Yakima to 19 years and seven months in prison.
He previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
As part of an agreed resolution to the case, Conn also admitted that he solicited to do harm to an assistant United States attorney in an attempt to obstruct justice, according to the sentencing memorandum written by Alex Ekstrom, an assistant U.S. attorney.
In return, federal prosecutors agreed not to charge Conn with a separate crime, but information about it was disclosed to the judge during the sentencing.
Officials and court documents did not disclose what attorney was targeted or what occurred.
Charges of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime also were dropped with Conn's plea, court documents said.
Conn was arrested in November 2010 by the Tri-Cities Violent Gang Task Force, which conducted controlled buys with a confidential informant at Conn's apartment on West Shoshone Street, documents said.
Conn was found in the bedroom after officers forced their way into his third-floor apartment. Detectives seized a scale, drug ledger, baggies and 191.7 grams of a mixture containing cocaine, documents said.
A key to a Jeep and storage unit was found in the bedroom, along with a closed-circuit camera in the apartment that captured the area around the storage unit.
Detectives obtained a warrant to search the unit and found two packages of cocaine, weighing 685.4 grams and 935.4 grams, documents said.
Another detective also found a black Smith & Wesson revolver that was fully loaded with .22-caliber rounds outside, directly below Conn's bedroom window.
Conn told investigators he sold drugs to support his lifestyle and admitted purchasing the gun off the streets, documents said.
Conn has two prior convictions from Franklin County in 1999 for delivering cocaine and criminal solicitation for second-degree arson, and a 2003 conviction in Umatilla County for manufacture/ delivery of a controlled substance.
With the felony convictions, it is illegal for him to possess guns.
