Selling a Gun for Gas Money

PUTNAM COUNTY, NY — A woman who told police she was on a trip from Texas to Maine and wanted to sell one of the unregistered guns she was carrying to get money for gas will have to come back to New York sometime in the future for a court date.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports that on Feb. 16 the Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Precision Armory gun store at 423 Route 52. The caller said a woman was there offering to sell a handgun but lacked the required documentation to legally possess it.

Sergeant William Quick responded to the call and located the woman as she was leaving the gun store in her vehicle.

Police said the woman, identified as Theresa A. Sager, 50, of Alfred, Maine, was found in possession of two unregistered handguns—a .32 caliber revolver and a .380 caliber semiautomatic pistol—for which she did not have the required licenses.

Police said Sager told them she had acquired the firearms in Texas while living there and was moving back to Maine. She said she was trying to sell a firearm to the gun store for gas money to continue her trip.

Quick arrested Seger and charged her with two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class A misdemeanor. She was processed at the Sheriff’s Office and arraigned before Town of Southeast Justice Gregory Folchetti, sitting on behalf of the Town of Kent Justice Court, and was released on her own recognizance pending a future appearance in the Kent Court.

If found guilty, she could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 on each count.

Police did not say if she told them how many guns she had started the trip with.

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