Awaiting trial in March on a charge of murder, Manuel Silva filed a motion on his own behalf, asking to be able to claim temporary insanity in the beating death of 39-year-old Christopher Deaton last spring.A Bluffton man was sentenced Friday to 20 months in a minimum-security prison for selling firearms to felons.
Timothy Bryant, 46, was arrested in May after an investigation at his Parlor City Pawn Shop by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives using an undercover agent and a cooperating source. Investigators believed he sold guns to people legally prohibited from owning firearms and faked documents in order to do so, according to court documents.
In September, Bryant pleaded guilty to two of the four charges in an indictment against him, admitting to selling firearms to addicts, felons or fugitives.
