Man Found With Drugs, Handguns Sentenced In Bensalem

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —A Philadelphia man was sentenced on Tuesday to up to a dozen years in prison on drug dealing and gun possession charges, authorities said.

Ishmael Colon, 35 pleaded guilty in April to five counts of persons not to possess a firearm and one count each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He appeared before Common Pleas Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. on Tuesday and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison, followed by nine to 12 months of probation, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

Colon was taken into custody without incident in June 2023 after he sold a 9-mm handgun and cocaine to a subject known to police.

Police recovered the handgun, two grams of cocaine,e and $1,600 on Colon. Colon is prohibited from having a firearm by law because of previous felony convictions.

During a subsequent search of his home in Philadelphia, police recovered five additional handguns, one of them an AR-style rifle.