A Lexington man was sentenced to over 5 years in prison for unlawful firearm possession.
On Friday in federal court, Bath Par Kuol, 27, was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Following his sentencing he’ll serve a 3-year term of supervised release
On January 29, 2022, Omaha police officers preformed a traffics stop on a vehicle that failed to signal its turn. During the stop officers observed two open containers of alcohol in the vehicle. Kuol was seated in the front passenger seat. A vehicle search revealed a Glock 19x 9mm handgun with a loaded 33-round magazine inside of the center console.
Further investigation showed the firearm was not registered with the City of Omaha, and that both Kuol and the driver were convicted felons prohibited from possessing firearms. Both were taken into custody.
Detectives obtained a search warrant to obtain a buccal swab of Kuol’s DNA and compared it to DNA found on the firearm. A forensic laboratory analysis determined the probability of the DNA being from Kuol as 108 trillion times more likely than from an otherwise unknown individual.
