Feds charge East Side man with gun possession

YOUNGSTOWN

An East Side man was charged earlier this week in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio, Cleveland, with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Dorian Christian, 38, was charged Tuesday in federal court after Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force officers and local members of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant at a 448 N. Garland Ave. home Monday and found a Smith & Wesson .40-caliber pistol.

An affidavit attached to the case said Christian admitted having the gun. The affidavit said Christian was sentenced to 37 months in prison in 2006 for three counts of distribution of cocaine/cocaine base, which bars him from owning a firearm.

He is in federal custody.