NORRISTOWN — A Bucks County woman showed no emotion as she was handcuffed and taken into custody to begin a prison term for illegally purchasing three guns for her Lansdale boyfriend, one of which he possessed when he was found prowling outside his ex-girlfriend’s New Hanover Township home while wearing night-vision goggles.
Kristin Leigh Sweigard, 40, of the 600 block East Street Road, Warminster, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 6½ to 13 years in the State Correctional Institution at Muncy on charges of selling or transferring firearms to ineligible persons, conspiracy to engage in persons not to possess firearms, making false statements on federal firearms purchase forms and conspiracy to make false statements in connection with incidents that occurred between June 2023 and February 2024.
Judge Wendy G. Rothstein imposed the punishment as part of a sentencing agreement reached between prosecutors and the defense. The sentence included a five-year mandatory term sought by prosecutors and allowable under state law for the crime of transferring firearms to an ineligible person.
Specifically, with her guilty plea, Sweigard admitted that she purchased three firearms for her boyfriend, Edward Francis Cordenner III, 38, of the 600 block of Susquehanna Avenue, Lansdale, while knowing he was prohibited from possessing guns due to a prior conviction, and lied on federal firearms purchase paperwork that the guns were for her…