LIHUE — A Koloa man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a firearms charge that could land him in prison for up to a decade.
Federal prosecutors brought charges against Kevin Boggs, 37, in January, in connection with three separate incidents in late 2018 and early 2019.
According to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 18 in Hawaii’s U.S. District Court, Boggs was found with guns and ammunition at least three times between November 2018 and January of this year. As a convicted felon, Boggs is prohibited by state law from owning or carrying a firearm.
“Even after he was arrested in November 2018 while unlawfully in possession of firearms and ammunition, Boggs proceeded to possess firearms and ammunition yet again on two more occasions,” a special agent with the Honolulu field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said in an affidavit.
Boggs pleaded guilty to one of three counts stemming from an incident in November, when Kauai police pulled him over for driving down Koloa Road in an all-terrain vehicle and found a rifle strapped to the rack with a machete hanging off the side, according to the affidavit.
Federal prosecutors dropped the other two charges in exchange for his guilty plea to a single count — being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Boggs could face up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 at sentencing, scheduled for Jan. 6, 2020, in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
Meanwhile, back on Kauai, Boggs has several matters pending in Fifth Circuit Court. Until he was transferred to a federal detention facility in April, Boggs was being held on Kauai on $1 million bail for a litany of charges, among them numerous class A felonies for robbery and kidnapping. That case is set to go to trial in December.
A spokesperson with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Honolulu said Tuesday that Boggs’ guilty plea in federal court will not affect the outcome of his circuit court cases.
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Caleb Loehrer, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0441 or cloehrer@thegardenisland.com.
Source: The Garden Island