A 16 year-old boy from the City of Newburgh has been sentenced to ten years behind bars. The Times Herald record reports that LeShawn Hamilton plead guilty to three gun charges: one count of criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of a more serious charge, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Assistant District Attorney Jason Rosenwasser says that the charges stem from three incidents. On Aug. 27, police responding to reports of a man with a gun found a loaded .22-caliber pistol inside a laundry bag in a bedroom of a home. The gun was allegedly altered to make it harder to trace. Assistant DA Rosenwasser said that lab testing revealed Hamilton's DNA on the trigger and trigger guard.

Hamilton was also found with an unloaded pistol in his waistband at a Crown Fried Chicken back in October, when police answered a shots-fired call outside the restaurant. Rosenwasser says that Hamilton was found with a loaded firearm yet again on Dec. 4, near a Jeep where two men were shot. The Times Herald Record reports that Hamilton had already amassed four prior weapons possession cases in Family Court as a juvenile, before turning 16 in July of 2014.

Hamilton's lawyer, Peter Green, asked the judge to go along with the plea deal, and noted that while Hamilton has been treated for a mental health issue, he may not have been "really treated."

 

 

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