A former inmate at Federal Correctional Institution/Schuylkill will spend more time behind bars after admitting Wednesday that he possessed a weapon in prison.
Dwayne Parker, 31, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Scranton to possession of contraband by an inmate.
U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion accepted his plea and immediately sentenced Parker to serve 27 months in a federal prison and pay a $100 special assessment. Mannion made his sentence consecutive to the sentence Parker already is serving.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd K. Hinkley prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the FBI.
A grand jury in Scranton indicted Parker on June 2 for possessing a shank, a type of homemade weapon, on April 21, 2014, while an inmate at FCI/Schuylkill, where Parker had been serving a 15-year prison sentence.
In the case that resulted in that sentence, Parker pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2010, in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to a charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe accepted Parker’s plea and promptly sentenced him to serve 15 years in a federal prison, plus five years supervised release after completing his sentence, pay a $100 special assessment and submit a DNA sample to law enforcement authorities.
In that case, a grand jury in Philadelphia indicted Parker on Dec. 17, 2009. The grand jury alleged that on Oct. 22, 2009, in Philadelphia, Parker possessed a Beretta .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol loaded with six live rounds of ammunition.
Parker had to forfeit to the government the gun and ammunition as a result of the charge.