New Milford Man Sentenced for Federal Weapons Charge

NEW MILFORD, CT — A New Milford man was sentenced Wednesday to one year in prison for federal weapons charges, according to U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly.

Leonard Sikorski, 61, was sentenced in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release for possessing a shotgun with an obliterated serial number. Sikorski is currently serving a sentence for a state charge of illegally possessing explosives.

Court documents and statements indicate Sikorski transported three rifles, two shotguns and 1,561 live rounds of ammunition to storage lockers in Danbury in September of 2015. He later admitted to investigators that he had placed the weapons in the locker, and one of the weapons had an obliterated serial numbers.

Sikorski surrendered the weapons to authorities, as well as five additional handguns and two rifles seized by Naugatuck and New Milford police during separate car stops. He plead guilty to the charge in October.

Judge Janet Bond Arterton ordered that Sikorski's federal sentence to run concurrently with his state sentence, estimated to conclude in April of 2018.

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