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A Lansdale man will head to state prison for 9 to 36 months for illegally carrying a concealed and loaded Sig Sauer handgun – with one in the chamber – that was discovered during a Towamencin Township motorcycle crash last February, according to The Reporter.
Robert Austin Jenkins, 26, of the 200 block of North Valley Forge Road, was sentenced Friday in on the felony charge in Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas by Judge Wendy G. Rothstein, who accepted a plea agreement, according to the report.
Jenkins had to forfeit his gun, which his wife purchased, to the county District Attorney’s Office as part of his sentence, according to the report.
In February, Jenkins pleaded guilty to the felony charge of firearms not to be carried without a license. He faced a maximum of seven years in prison.
Police said Jenkins moved from Texas recently and never obtained a concealed carry permit.
Police responded to a motorcycle crash at Forty Foot and Quarry roads at 6:44 p.m. on Feb. 21, 2023, and found four motorcycles at the intersection. Jenkins was sitting on one of the motorcycles, dazed, and looking "very pale and would not respond to verbal commands,” police said.
Police determined Jenkins had crashed into another motorcyclist while traveling southbound on Forty Foot Road, police said.
After police moved Jenkins to the curb, they found damage to his motorcycle, including a ripped off foot peg, police said. Jenkins suffered from scrapes on his skin and his clothes were ripped, police said.
He told police that he "had an adrenaline dump from the crash.”
Then, officers found the gun concealed in his waistband, police said, and Jenkins did not own a permit. The gun was loaded with 12 rounds in the magazine and one round in the chamber.
Jenkin’s wife had purchased the gun on Nov. 21, 2021, per reports.
A charge of possession of a prohibited firearm was dismissed, per the report.
