Gun Carrying Teen With No License Gets PA Jail Time

NORRISTOWN, PA — A Virginia man has been given time behind bars after he admitted to carrying a handgun without a license in Pennsylvania.

Shemar Myrick, 19, of Richmond, received a sentence recently of 6 to 23 months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of carrying a firearm without a license, according to court records and media reports.

Eighteen years old at the time of his arrest, Myrick would have been ineligible to carry a concealed firearm in the commonwealth, since one must be 21 years old to obtain a License to Carry Firearms in Pennsylvania.

The Times Herald newspaper in Norristown reported that the case dated back to this March, when Myrick was arrested by Abington Township officers after police conducted a car stop for a registration violation.

Myrick was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the stop, the report says, and police discovered the handgun on him after he was acting extremely nervous in the presence of officers.

Court records show that Myrick pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony charge of firearms not to be carried without a license, and that Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas P. Rogers imposed sentence immediately following the admission.

Records show that Myrick was originally charged with an additional felony — receiving stolen property — but that that charge had previously been disposed of in lower court.

Myrick was also initially charged with a misdemeanor count of false identification to law enforcement officers, but that charge was dropped in exchange for the guilty plea on the single felony count, according to the criminal docket sheet in the case.

Rogers ordered Myrick to forfeit all of his firearms to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.

Convicted felons are no longer legally able to possess guns.

The Times Herald story says that the judge also gave Myrick credit for time served since his arrest this spring.