A Howard County man has been sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of supervised release after he was arrested for being in a school zone with two illegal firearms.
Terrance Milik Marshall, 41, of Scaggsville, was arrested on Feb. 7 after a police officer saw him smoking a cigar in an idling vehicle in a non-residential area in Hyattsville, within 1,000 feet of a school.
According to an account of the arrest in Marshall's plea agreement, he jumped out of his car and locked the door with a key fob when the officer approached, telling him he didn't want to talk and that he was leaving.
According to the account, Marshall then ran off. The officer caught up to him and detained him, then placed Marshall under arrest after observing a 9-millimeter firearm with an extended magazine in an orange bag on the front passenger seat through the window of the car.
Officials said Marshall had been parked in the same location the day before with a semiautomatic firearm. According to the plea agreement, both weapons were loaded and recovered from the orange bag.
The Prince George's County police department worked with the Baltimore division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David I. Salem and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Sykes, of the United States Department of Justice's organized crime and gang section.