PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 23-year-old Philadelphia man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a federal firearm charge.
While on patrol in Kensington in 2018, police found Robert Holloway with a gun in his waistband. He fled after officers told him to stop, and they say he threw his .45-caliber pistol away on the street.
In federal court in 2019, Holloway pleaded guilty to being a felon while in possession of a gun.
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“As we near the end of a year with a record number of homicides in Philadelphia mostly involving guns, we and our law enforcement partners are working harder than ever … putting repeat criminal offenders like Holloway behind bars when they illegally possess guns on the street,” said Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams in a statement.
Holloway was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.