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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a\u00a0resident of Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of four years on his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm and\u00a0possessing\u00a0a machinegun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twenty-two-year-old Andrew Rocco was sentenced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to information presented to the Court, Rocco\u2019s residence was searched on February 2nd, 2024, and police found three firearms, along with magazines and ammunition. \u00a0<\/p>\n
One of those firearms\u00a0was\u00a0equipped with a mechanism that is\u00a0frequently\u00a0referred to as a \u201cswitch\u201d or auto-sear,\u00a0which\u00a0renders\u00a0it capable of fully automatic firing. <\/p>\n
That means that one of the firearms was a machinegun. \u00a0<\/p>\n
All\u00a0three\u00a0of the pistols were outfitted with loaded, extended magazines.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is the third time that Rocco has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a gun-related crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of a Gavel) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-269720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269720","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=269720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}