Man pleads guilty in selling guns stolen by his wife from evidence room

By Chris Eger

Adrianne Canterbury (left), Richard Allen Canterbury (middle) and Candice Byrum (right). (Photo: Dallas County Jail)
An Alabama man pleaded guilty in federal court for his part in a ring that plotted to sell almost 300 guns stolen from the Selma Police evidence lock up.
U.S. Attorney Richard Moore announced Wednesday that Richard Allen Canterbury, of Valley Grande, pleaded guilty in January on charges of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, possession of firearms with an obliterated serial number and selling firearms without a federal license. Canterbury, arrested in 2017 when the short-run scheme unraveled, received the guns from his wife, Adrianne, then later stored and attempted to sell them.
According to court documents, the operation was brought to light last April when police received a call from a middle school assistant principal after Adrianne’s minor son had brought some jewelry to campus that he tried to sell to fellow students. When asked where the items came from, the youth said his mother brought them home from the police evidence room where she worked. Investigators soon found that other items, to include firearms, were absent from the room with Adrianne, after being confronted, taking detectives to her home where they recovered three stolen

Source: Guns.com