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Tonya Shipley: From an Oct 2010 Times Recorder story on Terry Thompson being sentenced on gun charges:

U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley looked as if he was struggling Friday morning with exactly what sentence to give a Zanesville man who pleaded guilty to two federal counts of possessing illegal firearms.

Marbley finally decided on sentencing Terry Thompson, 62, to one year and one day in federal prison, ordered him to be on house arrest for a year after his release. In addition, he was ordered to complete 208 hours of community service, either working with children or animals, within a year of his release.

Thompson entered guilty pleas to the federal charges in April and faced up to 10 years in prison.

But Marbley told Thompson before sentencing that he had to weigh the seriousness of the crime and Thompson's background and personal history.

Thompson was charged after agents with Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms served a search warrant at Thompson's home on Kopchak Road in 2008. At that time, the ATF seized 133 weapons and a small amount of ammunition. Thompson's conviction centered on eight of those guns -- five fully automatic firearms and three short-barreled firearms without serial numbers. Thompson was formerly a gun dealer who did not renew his license several years ago.

Marbley did eject one other gun from the case Friday, a Japanese gun that was manufactured to shoot flares. Marbley disagreed with Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bosley, who along with an agent from the ATF, told Marbley the gun could be fitted to shoot 12-gauge shotgun shells.

Thompson, who despite having a broken right arm in a sling, stood at attention, said the gun, a souvenir from his father from World War II, along with another gun, were antiques and were meant as heirlooms that eventually would be passed to a nephew.

The guns were discovered in a storage chest in the basement of Thompson's home the day ATF served the warrant. They had been taken from Thompson's father's home before the home was demolished two years ago.

Marbley said it came as a surprise to him that Thompson has a history of being a businessman, a pilot and a Vietnam veteran.

"You've essentially been a law-abiding citizen," Marbley said. "You seem to be a very intelligent, which may have got you into this trouble."