OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — A 30-year-old El Salvadoran national has been sentenced to serve 20 months in federal prison for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
According to public record, on Jan. 29, a trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a pickup truck on NW 10th Street in Oklahoma City, but the truck fled. Following a brief high-speed pursuit, the truck crashed into a cart return cage in the parking lot of a shopping center, and the driver, Luis Mejia-Alas, fled the vehicle on foot.
He was taken into custody shortly afterward, and OHP located a firearm in the floorboard of Mejia-Alas’s truck. On March 18, a federal grand jury charged Mejia-Alas with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. On June 3, Mejia-Alas pleaded guilty and admitted he possessed a firearm and that he is a citizen of El Salvador in the United States illegally…