Man Sentenced for Carrying Gun Into Court
A former lawyer from Sherman Oaks was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for knowingly bringing a firearm into a federal court facility.
Ronald Wayne Simpson, 63, entered the lobby of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Woodland Hills on Oct. 21 with a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his briefcase.
Court security officers saw the gun when the briefcase went through an X-ray machine.
At the time, Simpson was scheduled to surrender to begin serving a 10-month sentence for income tax evasion. The sentence imposed Monday by U.S. District Judge George H. King will run consecutive to the 10-month term.
Simpson once practiced personal injury law in Beverly Hills.
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