Daniel Greenwood was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Courtesy photo
A Newport man was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty in federal court in February to illegally possessing a firearm and burglarizing a pharmacy.
Daniel Greenwood, 43, had faced two charges stemming from incidents in October 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont.
First, on Oct. 15 that year, Greenwood stole more than $500 in controlled substances during an after-hours burglary at the Kinney Drugs in Cambridge, prosecutors said.
Then, six days later, Greenwood broke into a man’s home in Thetford and tried to steal a scoped Mossberg .270 hunting rifle, according to an affidavit filed in court by an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Greenwood, trying to conceal his face with a hooded sweatshirt, was inside the house when the homeowner arrived that day, the resident told troopers. Greenwood tried walking out the door with the rifle, but the homeowner grabbed it out of Greenwood’s hands, according to the affidavit. Then Greenwood got in a car and pointed a different rifle at the homeowner before leaving, the affidavit says.
Because Greenwood had been convicted in 1999 of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, a felony, his possession of the Mossberg rifle was illegal, according to prosecutors.
Greenwood had been on the run at the time of the offenses, according to federal prosecutors, evading parole supervision. He was arrested in Massachusetts later in 2017 in connection with another burglary, according to a press release, and had been serving time in that state prior to his latest Vermont conviction.
Judge Christina Reiss accepted a plea agreement from Greenwood on Feb. 5, court records show, before issuing the judgement on Friday.
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