A Hart County man will serve more than four years in prison after being convicted for a federal weapons charge.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky says Lawrence T. Carter Jr. of Munfordville will serve four years and nine months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Carter was arrested in August of 2022 after a traffic stop on Old Munfordville Road found him to be in possession of drugs and a 9 MM handgun. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Carter is banned from possessing firearms after a 2005 conviction for drug and weapons charges.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives along with the Cave City Police Department as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, an operation bringing together multiple law enforcement agencies to reduce violent crime, and as part of the ATF’s violent crime reduction strategies.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says there is no parole in the federal system.
