Department of Justice
For Immediate Release
Keeseville Man Sentenced for Unlawful Gun Possession
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Kenneth R. Carte, Jr., age 27, of Keeseville, New York, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; Special Agent in Charge Ashan M. Benedict of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), New York Field Office; and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
As part of his guilty plea on June 1, 2017, Carte admitted that on November 17, 2016, he sold a Remington Model 870 Express shotgun and a box of Remington .410 shotgun shells to another person. At the time, he was a felon, having been convicted of criminal possession of stolen property. Investigators also recovered from Carte’s house a loaded Remington Model 742 semi-automatic rifle.
Chief Judge Glenn T. Suddaby also sentenced Carte to 3 years of post-imprisonment supervised release.
This case was investigated by the New York State Police Troop B Gun Unit and the ATF, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Collyer.