A Bellevue man prohibited from possessing a firearm due to a domestic violence order was sentenced to more than 2 1/2 years in federal prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in July to possessing a fully loaded AK-47, according to Gabrielle Dudgeon of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Perrin George March V, 27, admitted that had ammunition and large capacity magazines in addition to the AK-47 despite the domestic violence order, according to police.
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 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 order.
The order included warnings about a federal law which carries penalties for possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving any firearm or ammunition while subject to a domestic violence order.
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.
