Retired veteran, felon wants wife to keep 118 guns or proceeds
A retired Army veteran with a history of imprisonment for felony threats wants his wife to keep the 118 firearms or proceeds from the sale of them that were seized by federal agents in March from a Hooks, Texas, home.
Robert Dillard Whittington III, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and author of several books about guns, was convicted in 2011, in Bossier Parish, La., of the felony offense of terrorizing. As a convicted felon, Whittington, 78, is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition under state and federal laws.
According to court documents in the Louisiana case used to create the following account, Whittington pleaded guilty Jan. 3, 2011, to terrorizing and received a five-year term at a sentencing hearing March 9, 2011. Whittington posted a letter at a deer camp in Louisiana threatening to come after the camp's owner while in a deer stand. A threatening letter was also mailed to the camp owner's home.
Federal agents seized 118 guns and 20,908 rounds of various types of ammunition March 7 from Whittington's home on Avenue D in Hooks, Texas. Whittington pleaded guilty in October to both counts listed in an indictment charging him with possession of firearms by a felon and possession of ammunition by a felon in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
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