{Charleston,
West Virginia}…John Marcus Schoonover, 41, of Nitro, has been sentenced to four
years and nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty in August to
being a felon in possession of a firearm, admitting that, on August 14, 2011,
he carried a stolen 12-gauge shotgun to Will’s Jewelry & Loan in South
Charleston and pawned it. Schoonover was convicted in September 2008 in
Putnam County Circuit Court of conspiracy to commit first-degree arson and did
not have his rights to possess a firearm restored.
