{"id":127901,"date":"2026-03-03T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:06:07","slug":"scranton-man-sentenced-to-12-years-for-possession-of-a-machine-gun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127901\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man sentenced to 12 years for possession of a machine gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 28-year-old Scranton man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found with an automatic weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Naim Mustafa House is to serve 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of a machine gun, the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, on July 8, 2024, Scranton Police initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle in which House was a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">House fled on foot and was found hiding under a rear porch of a residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following his arrest, police found him to be in possession of marijuana packed for resale and a Glock 7, 9mm handgun equipped with a device to transition the firearm from a semiautomatic firearm into a fully automatic weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The firearm also had an extended magazine containing ten rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Scranton Police Department investigated the case. Assistant United States Attorney Jenny P. Roberts prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old Scranton man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found with an automatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59623,464,59622,48450,14840,59624,178,180,179,11007,20916],"class_list":["post-127901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-automatic-weapon","tag-federal-prison","tag-naim-mustafa-house","tag-office-for-the-middle-district-of-pennsylvania","tag-possession","tag-possession-of-marijuana","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-police","tag-scranton-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}