Curtis Birner, 37 years old, of Peru, Indiana was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. after being found guilty of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm following a two-day jury trial in January, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.

Birner was sentenced to 110 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release.

According to documents in the case, in October 2021, Birner entered a Peru gas station with a gun concealed in his sweatshirt.

He displayed the firearm to another person prompting a call to law enforcement.

At the time law enforcement located Birner, he was in a car in the parking lot of a different gas station with a rifle and handgun on his seat along with shotgun in the back seat area. Birner has been convicted of several prior felony offenses, including a federal conviction for felon in possession of a firearm.

Any one of his prior felony convictions prohibited Birner from possessing the firearms in this case.