Richard Riley, of Rotherham, is jailed for 12 years after being convicted of eight firearm offences.
A Rotherham man found in possession of several illegal firearms has been jailed.Riley had been linked forensically to three of six converted pistols found in a container in Sheffield in September 2022, South Yorkshire Police said, with another found near his home.The weapons had been recovered along with 72 rounds of ammunition from a container in the Beighton area of Sheffield in September 2022, police said.
A converted blank-firing, self-loading pistol was then recovered from a neighbour's lawn along with five modified 9mm cartridges. It was similar to the weapons previously found in Sheffield. Det Con Haider Ali said: "The seriousness of this offence can be demonstrated by the fact that when police identified Riley's potential links to firearms, a warrant was executed at that address, and being aware of police arrival, an item was seen to be going over a fence from the garden where Riley was arrested.
Riley had been convicted of four counts of possession of a prohibited firearms weapon, two counts of possession of a firearm when prohibited, one offence of possessing ammunition without a firearms certificate and one count of possessing ammunition when prohibited.
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