Ex-North Texas deputy sentenced to 15 months over gun sales

Posted: Monday, January 8, 2018 11:39 am | Updated: 12:10 pm, Mon Jan 8, 2018.

DALLAS (AP) — A former North Texas sheriff's deputy must serve more than a year in federal prison for stealing confiscated guns and pawning the weapons or selling them online.

Ex-Ellis County sheriff's Lt. Philip Gary Slaughter, who supervised an evidence room, was sentenced to 15 months for possession or sale of stolen firearms. Prosecutors in Dallas on Monday announced the penalty for a the 42-year-old Slaughter, who's from Mesquite.

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