Pa. man gets four years for violation of firearms laws

Staff report

PITTSBURGH

A 49-year-old Ellwood City, Pa., resident has been sentenced in federal court to four years in prison for violating federal firearms and explosives laws, the U.S. attorney said Thursday. Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill imposed the sentence on Dean Huzinec.

According to information presented to the court, Huzinec, after having been convicted of a felony, possessed 19 firearms, a firearm silencer and explosive material on or about Aug. 17, 2008.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Atty. Craig W. Haller under Project Safe Neighborhoods, a collaborative effort by federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies, prosecutors and communities to prevent, deter and prosecute gun crime.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Franklin Township Police, the Allegheny County Police Bomb Squad, the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Ellwood City Police investigated the case.