MADISON, Wis. — A 20-year-old Madison man was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for stealing a handgun from a person during a drug deal in Dane County earlier this year, the justice department said.
Ka’Toine Richardson was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his prison term.
In a news release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin said Richardson stole the gun on March 18 and had it in his possession until his arrest on March 23. In announcing Richardson’s indictment in April, the agency said he stole the gun from a person he had met to sell marijuana to in the 2800 block of Oregon Road.
At the time, Richardson was out on bail after he was arrested on State Street last year in an incident that saw shots fired and a police officer hit. The Wisconsin Department of Justice said a Madison Police Department officer fired his gun, hitting another officer, while trying to arrest Richardson on Oct. 10, 2021.
The following month, court documents provided new details about the incident. According to a criminal complaint, a loaded gun Richardson was carrying went off during a struggle involving multiple police officers who were trying to arrest him. The complaint did not say how the trigger was pulled.
Richardson still faces numerous charges from the October incident, online court records show.
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