A Lebanon man will spend more than five years in federal prison after he was found with a loaded handgun and drugs while asleep in a car, federal prosecutors said.
Robert Beaumont, 29, was sentenced April 7 to 65 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Keli M. Neary, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
State police in Lebanon County responded to a report of a man slumped over the steering wheel of a car and found Beaumont asleep in the driver’s seat of a black Nissan, prosecutors said. Officers spotted loose heroin on the passenger seat and took him into custody.
During a search of the vehicle, police found a loaded SCCY CPX-2 9mm pistol under the driver’s seat, along with heroin, methamphetamine and assorted drug paraphernalia, according to prosecutors.
Beaumont was barred from possessing firearms due to a 2020 guilty plea to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and related charges.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scalera prosecuted.
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