He livestreamed himself holding a machine gun. Now he's going to prison for 7 years.

A Washington, D.C. antheral was sentenced to 7 years successful situation aft constabulary spotted him successful an Instagram livestream with a instrumentality gun, the Justice Department announced.

A U.S. District Court justice sentenced Corey Whittico to 84 months successful situation followed by 3 years of supervised merchandise Monday for amerciable possession of a weapon and ammunition, the section said successful a quality release. He antecedently pleaded blameworthy successful December to the charge.

Whittico cannot ain a weapon owed to a erstwhile felony conviction, stemming from a robbery successful Maryland, the section said.

According to the Justice Department, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officers spotted Whittico broadcasting a livestream successful 2023 of himself successful the rider spot of a moving car, holding a Glock weapon outfitted with a instrumentality weapon conversion device.

The officers drove to an country Whittico is known to predominant portion monitoring his livestream. They aboriginal arrested him and the driver.

D.C. constabulary admit Whittico connected livestream

According to D.C. Superior Court records, the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. dropped the charges successful section tribunal for national prosecution. In the little court's records, 4 Metropolitan Police Officers were monitoring Instagram erstwhile they came crossed Whittico's account. No accusation was listed successful tribunal documents indicating however the constabulary knew Whittico owned the account.

Officers wrote successful charging documents they saw connected the video of Whittico flashing the modified weapon successful a moving car. Moments later, the officers recognized a "Welcome to Washington D.C." sign. Two officers drove to a vicinity they knew Whittico frequented and spotted a car akin to what they saw successful the unrecorded video.

"The officers conducted a postulation halt connected the 5800 artifact of East Capitol Street, SE," according to the Justice Department. "As the operator of the Honda pulled over, the officers watched arsenic the Honda’s occupants reached into the backmost passenger’s compartment and appeared to conceal an point nether 1 of the seats."

Police searched the backseat of the car and recovered much than 51 ounces of marijuana, which is supra D.C.'s 2-ounce possession bounds for idiosyncratic use. They besides recovered the instrumentality weapon Whittico flashed successful the video, loaded with 1 circular of ammunition successful the enclosure and 16 rounds loaded into a 22-round feeding device.

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