A Leeton man will spend the next 15 years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri says that 54-year-old William N. Brown Sr learned his sentence in federal court Friday, after pleading guilty to the charge in February. The district attorney’s office says that in February 2024, Brown was seen walking to a neighbor’s house carrying a machete and 12-gauge shotgun with the serial number filed off. Deputies with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office were granted a warrant to search Brown’s home and located the shotgun.

Online court records indicate that Brown had a previous conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm in 2017, and pleaded guilty that same year to damaging jail property. Brown’s federal sentence is to be served without the possibility of parole.