{"id":155537,"date":"2026-01-29T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155537\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:13:09","slug":"felon-pleads-guilty-to-firearm-charge-in-sacramento-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155537\/","title":{"rendered":"Felon pleads guilty to firearm charge in Sacramento | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Cornelius Houston, a 35-year-old man from Sacramento, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, as announced by U.S. Attorney Eric Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Houston was found with a loaded Glock handgun on August 15, 2025. Due to his prior felony convictions for robbery and drug-related offenses, he is prohibited from having firearms or ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SacramentoPoliceDepartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Police Department<\/a> led the investigation, with help from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brad Ng is handling the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s sentencing is set for May 14, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta. He could face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but the final sentence will be determined by the court based on various factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Cornelius Houston, a 35-year-old man from Sacramento, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,723,100,121,123,122,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-155537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-covering-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news","14":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}