BENTON – A Wolf Lake man has been sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison after admitting to possessing firearms as a felon.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Illinois, 41-year-old Kyle M. Bond pleaded guilty to one count of felon in possession of a firearm and one count of receipt or possession of an unregistered firearm. Bond will serve three years of supervised release following his time in prison.

Court documents show that on Jan. 5, 2023, Union County Sheriff’s deputies carried out a search warrant at Bond’s home in Union County in connection to an investigation and located nine firearms on his property — six rifles and three handguns. Four of the nine firearms Bond possessed had obliterated serial numbers.

One of the firearms recovered by law enforcement was a short-barrel semi-automatic rifle, with a barrel length of 12 and a half inches, that Bond did not register in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.

Prior to Bond’s indictment in 2023, he had been convicted of a felony offense in Missouri and therefore unable to legally possess firearms.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office and ATF contributed to the investigation.