Posted August 15, 2018 10:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Michael Scott Barber, 22, will spend the next 17.5 years in prison for a string of unrelated, violent felonies. (Photo: Kalamazoo News)
A northern Indiana man will spend the better part of two decades in prison for a string of unrelated felonies culminating in a gun store burglary last year.
Michael Scott Barber, 22, will spend 210 months behind bars after masterminding a break-in at Dutchman Hunting Supplies in Shipshewana, Indiana 18 months ago. According to a sentencing memorandum filed last week, Barber and two accomplices scoped out the retailer before returning in the middle of the night to steal 15 guns and a crossbow.
Police later recovered eight of the stolen firearms, according to court records, at various crime scenes in Indiana and Illinois. In one case, Chicago Heights law enforcement investigating an armed robbery confiscated a handgun from a convicted felon on parole for second degree murder. In another case, one of the firearms turned up at the scene of a fatal shooting in the city of Chicago.
Barber’s criminal history extends back at least five years and involves multiple “violent felonies” including home invasion, assault by strangulation, grand theft auto and probation violations. Ten days after the burglary at Dutchman Hunting Supplies,

Source: Guns.com

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