A Bellevue man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal gun charge.
Perrin George March V, 27, admitted to illegal possession of a firearm and entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced.
According to March’s plea agreement, law enforcement executed a federal search warrant at his residence and found a fully loaded AK-47 pistol, ammunition, and large capacity magazines. Â
March admitted that he knew he was currently subject to a domestic violence order and was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition.                       Â
March was indicted in May 2022.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Greenfield.
March is scheduled to be sentenced on November 8. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
According to federal court documents, March was arrested on May 15, 2021 and charged with misdemeanor second degree stalking, misdemeanor third degree terroristic threatening, and misdemeanor harassing communications. A complaint had been made by a former intimate partner of March who was pregnant with his child. She alleged that March had stalked and threatened to kill her.
Five days later, a domestic violence order (DVO) was issued through Campbell County Family Court prohibiting March from further acts of abuse, being within 500 feet of
three specific addresses, and disposing or damaging property of the parties to the DVO
The DVO included warnings about a federal law which carries penalties for possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving any firearm or ammunition while subject to a DVO.
The court documents explain that on May 13 of this year, the FBI executed a federal search warrant at March’s Foote Avenue home and found the fully-loaded AK-47 pistol and investigators determined that the gun had been transported through interstate commerce prior to March’s possession of it. The firearm was semi-automatic and capable of using large capacity magazines.
FBI agents also found five loaded 60-round drum magazines. A bullet in one of them was painted with the words “white power” and there were Nazi symbols painted on some of the magazines, court documents show.