New Hampshire Man Sentenced On Firearm Charge

          CONCORD, N.H. – Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Richard Lariviere, 45, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 70 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.  Upon his release, Lariviere will be placed on three years of supervised release which is monitored by the United States Probation Office.

          On May 20, 2014, members of the Nashua Police Department obtained a search warrant for a Mercedes operated by Lariviere.  The officers stopped the Mercedes in the parking lot of the Country Barn Motel as Lariviere was driving out of the parking lot.  The detectives executed the search warrant and located a loaded, 7.65mm Walther semiautomatic handgun with serial number 20384 within a black bag on the vehicle's front passenger seat.  The police subsequently applied for and received permission to execute a search warrant for Lariviere’s hotel room where the police found one box of .22 caliber ammunition in addition to Lariviere's license and a check stub for Lariviere.

          During the sentencing hearing, the government also introduced evidence that Lariviere sold four additional firearms in exchange for drugs in Lawrence, Massachusetts.  Lariviere was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition because he was previously convicted of Felonious Assault on a Peace Officer in the State of Ohio, a crime punishable by more than one (1) year imprisonment.

          The case was investigated by Nashua Police Department and ATF.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra M. Walsh.