Former Corrections Officer Sentenced to Prison for Providing Firearm to Felon

ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Mills, age 39, a resident of Dannemora, New York, was sentenced today to serve 21 months in prison for knowingly providing a firearm to a felon. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Erin Keegan, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo Field Office, made the announcement.

As part of his guilty plea, Mills admitted that at various times during summer 2022, he traded a New England Firearms Company Model Pardner-SP1 .410-gauge shotgun, an Armalite rifle, ammunition, an ammunition magazine and two body armor vests to Dustin J. Manor at Manor's apartment in Plattsburgh, New York, knowing that Manor was a felon. On October 20, 2022, the Plattsburgh Police Department seized the shotgun, one (1) .44 magnum round of ammunition, shotgun rounds, and a set of RTS Tactical Level IV ceramic body armor from Manor's Plattsburgh apartment after responding to a domestic incident there.

Manor was federally prohibited from possessing the firearms and ammunition due to 2014 drug felony convictions for which he was sentenced to 5 years in state prison.

Mills had been employed as a corrections officer at Clinton Correctional Facility but resigned his position following his arrest.

Senior United States District Judge Lawrence E. Kahn also imposed a 2-year term of supervised release to begin after Mills is released from prison.

Manor was sentenced in August to 57 months in prison and 3 years' supervised release for possessing the .410-gauge shotgun and ammunition as a felon.

HSI and the Plattsburgh Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas G. Collyer prosecuted the case.