A former police chief from a tiny village in Ohio was sentenced for his role in a machine gun trafficking scheme, federal authorities said.
An ex-Ohio police chief used his badge in a machine gun trafficking scheme aimed at reselling more than 200 weapons of war, prosecutors said.
Federal laws ban the purchase or transfer of fully automatic machine guns unless for law enforcement, an exception LaCourse, 66, exploited. Those letters were then sent to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by co-conspirators Johnathan Marcum, 34, and Christopher Petty, 58, to get the weapons. The two men were supposed to give the department demonstrations with the guns, but never did.
LaCourse originally faced 17 charges connected to the crime, but ended up pleading guilty to three of them in April,
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