Second Man Sentenced for Theft of Weapons from Buchheit's

A second Centralia man faces federal prison time after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense.

32-year-old Brandon Hoskins Thursday pleaded guilty in US District Court. Hoskins faces a minimum of five years in prison.

Hoskins was investigated following the November 29, 2014 burglary of Buchheit's of Centralia. In that burglary, 40 firearms and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition were stolen. Dakota Moss, also of Centralia, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for committing that burglary.

Court records established that two of the guns stolen during the Buchheit's burglary were eventually transferred to Brandon Hoskins. When agents went to Hoskins' home on December 5, 2014 to search for the stolen firearms, they discovered a separate Glock pistol in his bedroom, along with an amount of heroin, a drug log book and drug packaging materials. Hoskins admitted that he kept the firearm as protection related to his drug dealing.

Hoskins will be sentenced on December 13.