Girlfriend of convicted triple murderer gets 1 year on straw buyer charges

By Chris Eger

Andrea Sibley is set to serve a year in federal prison after providing at least nine guns to a triple murderer with a lengthy record. (Photo: Ariane Kunze/The Columbian)
A Washington woman who bought a series of firearms for her boyfriend, a self-professed neo-Nazi with a history of violence, was sentenced to a year in federal prison this week.
Andrea Sibley, 29, was given one year in prison and three on parole in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on charges of abetting a felon in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
According to court documents, Sibley was the longtime girlfriend of Brent Ward Luyster, a swastika-tattooed skinhead with a criminal record that dated as far back as 1997. Then 19 and in college, she met him on a trip that entailed her picking Luyster up from prison. Despite knowing he was a felon and an avowed white supremacist, she remained in a relationship with him for nearly a decade, punctuated by times she left him due to domestic violence.
She provided Luyster with at least nine firearms purchased from area gun stores and private parties between March 2015 and March 2016 under her name and

Source: Guns.com