Maine woman pleads guilty to arming felon in police shootout

By Chris Eger

Steven Piirainen (Photo: Oxford County Sheriff’s Department via The Portland Press Herald)
A South Paris woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for her part in buying a handgun for a probationer later killed while using it against police officers the next day.
Stephanie Knightly, 50, entered a guilty plea at the U.S. Courthouse in Portland this week to a single charge of transferring a firearm to a felon.
According to court documents, in August 2014 Knightly met a private seller at a store parking lot in Scarborough, Maine through an Uncle Henry’s classifieds ad and paid cash for a CZ M82 9x18mm pistol. Accompanying her on the sale was Steven Piirainen, 52, a long-time friend of hers who had arranged the sale and gave her the money for the gun. Piirainen, a felon with a criminal record, had pending charges which could have threatened his probation status.
Piirainen left with the pistol and, after stealing a truck from the parking lot of the restaurant he worked at, was killed following an exchange of gunfire with a Mexico, Maine police officer, and a Maine State Police trooper. As reported by the Portland Press Herald, the man had spent 14 years in prison on a

Source: Guns.com