Men sentenced for robbing Henry County gun shop

Two Maryland men will serve more than ten years in federal prison for robbing a Henry County gun shop in 2007.

A federal judge in Danville sentenced Timothy Oliver Jackson Jr. and Ronald Ganeous to 10 years and 1 month in prison, follwed by four years of supervised release on Tuesday.

Each man must also pay a special assessment of $200, and a total of $45,418 in restitution.

The pair was arrested in December of 2007, in Greenbelt Maryland.

Investigators say the duo robbed Southern Gun Inc. in Collinsville back in November of 2007.  The two men forced clerk Robert Farley to the floor, and hancuffed him.  Farley says he had no other choice but to cooperate.

Deputies say the robbers then filled backpacks they were carrying full of handguns from the store.  The ATF says a total of 75 handguns were stolen, worth more $50,000.  22 are revolvers, 53 are semi-automatic pistols.  The men ran from the store, and got in a getaway car.

Investigators recovered six or seven weapons that were stolen from the gun shop, and believe the rest were sold on the black market.