A former employee of a Gwinnett gun store convicted of stealing several firearms, using methamphetamine and booby trapping his house with ” a fully-assembled homemade improvised mine” was sentenced Tuesday to spend nearly nine years in prison.
Jeffrey Scott Truitt, a 44-year-old former employee of Mainstreet Guns and Range in Lilburn, pleaded guilty to federal charges in August, nearly a year after authorities serving a search warrant at his Norcross home found three stolen guns and six grams of methamphetamine. According to previous media reports, the guns found at Truitt's home were part of nearly 60 weapons reported stolen from the store where he was employed.
“Truitt not only stole firearms from his employer, but when agents executed a federal search warrant, near the door where they entered was a fully-assembled homemade improvised mine, capable of discharging a 12-gauge shotgun shell at an unsuspecting victim,” U.S. Attorney John Horn said in an emailed statement.
Such “destructive devices” are required to be registered with a national database.
Truitt was sentenced Tuesday to serve eight years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
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