Appeals Court Judges last month rejected a request to have the sentence for a Unity man serving time in a federal firearms case.
The Trib reports that this was connected to the case of Thomas Stanko, who was ordered to serve seven years and three months in prison and three years of probation back in July of 2022. He pleaded guilty to two counts of illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. The federal charges stem from 17 guns state police said they found on a Unity property and a storage unit he rented while they were investigating the April 2018 disappearance of Cassandra Gross of Unity.
The judges ruled that Stanko’s sentence was reasonable. They said the Pittsburgh district judge evaluated information regarding Stanko’s childhood appropriately when they issued the sentence.
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