{"id":160858,"date":"2026-09-07T04:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:34:12","slug":"warsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160858\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw man sentenced to more than 15 years for federal firearm offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare<a href=\"#\" class=\"penci-post-like penci_post-meta_item  single-like-button penci-social-item like\" data-post_id=\"284548\" title=\"Like\" data-like=\"Like\" data-unlike=\"Unlike\">0<\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense%20-%20https:\/\/www.953mnc.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense\/\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F05%2Fprison-553836_960_720.webp&amp;description=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F&amp;title=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense&amp;BODY=https:\/\/www.953mnc.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/prison-553836_960_720.webp\" class=\"attachment-penci-thumb-960-auto size-penci-thumb-960-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/prison-prison-cell-jail-crime-553836\/<\/p>\n<p>A Warsaw man will spend more than 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm as an armed career criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors say 47-year-old Jason Waikel was sentenced to 15 years and eight months behind bars, followed by four years of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>The case began after Warsaw police investigated a July 2025 report of gunfire coming from a moving vehicle. Waikel was identified as a person of interest in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities later searched his vehicle and found a bullet hole in the driver\u2019s-side portion of the trunk. A search of a storage unit connected to Waikel uncovered four firearms.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Waikel later acknowledged that he fired the shots involved in the July incident.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare<a href=\"#\" class=\"penci-post-like penci_post-meta_item  single-like-button penci-social-item like\" data-post_id=\"284548\" title=\"Like\" data-like=\"Like\" data-unlike=\"Unlike\">0<\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense%20-%20https:\/\/www.953mnc.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense\/\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F05%2Fprison-553836_960_720.webp&amp;description=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.953mnc.com%2F2026%2F09%2F07%2Fwarsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense%2F&amp;title=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense\"><\/a><a class=\"penci-social-item email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Warsaw%20man%20sentenced%20to%20more%20than%2015%20years%20for%20federal%20firearm%20offense&amp;BODY=https:\/\/www.953mnc.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warsaw-man-sentenced-to-more-than-15-years-for-federal-firearm-offense\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share0 https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/prison-prison-cell-jail-crime-553836\/ A Warsaw man will spend more than 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[182,181],"class_list":["post-160858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117227898115095401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}