A federal judge has sentenced a South Carolina man to two years in federal prison for buying guns at local shops that he then handed off to a friend from Boston who sold them here - including one used a couple of weeks later in an Uphams Corner double shooting.

After his release, Travon Brunson, 32, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic firearms, will spend three years on probation for his repeated gun buying - he kept purchasing for Aizavier Roache, 31, of Roxbury, even after ATF agents, investigating Roache, interviewed him and told him he needed to stop buying guns for a convicted felon. Roache was sentenced to five years in prison last month.

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A 36-year-old man was arrested early last Saturday morning (March 15) on breaking and entering charges and various warrants after police say they saw him breaking into a car on Arcadia Street around 2 a.m. The suspect—Donnell Butler of Boston— attempted to flee and struggled with arresting officers, according to a BPD account. A search of his backpack found “an electric stun gun, two screwdrivers, an electric screwdriver, socket wrench, and a socket set consistent with burglarious tools. Butler was arraigned in Dorchester district of Boston Municipal Court for felony breaking and entering, possession of an electric stun gun and burglarious tools, and resisting arrest.

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Boston Police arrested a man on arms charges after he allegedly roamed the South Bay mall with a loaded gun, which he reportedly pointed at security guards last Saturday afternoon. Police say officers started making their way to the Target after getting a call about a man using drugs in its men’s room around 2:30 p.m. Alejandro Ortiz, 47, of Boston was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, defacing a firearm serial number and possession of a class C drug, police say.