A Meadville man apprehended in Edinboro eight months after Meadville police charged him in connection with a break-in and fatal shooting in the Crawford County city pleaded guilty on Wednesday to illegally possessing guns that police found during his arrest.
Erie County Judge John J. Mead sentenced Timothy T. Bolden, 27, to six to 12 years in prison on Bolden’s guilty plea Wednesday morning to a first-degree felony count of possession of a firearm prohibited. Mead followed an agreement reached between Erie County prosecutors and Bolden’s lawyer, Ken Bickel, and made the sentence run concurrent to the 15-to-30-year prison sentence Bolden received in Crawford County earlier this month on his guilty pleas to two charges in the Meadville homicide case.
Assistant District Attorney Tayler Moses told Mead before sentencing that it is quite clear through Bolden’s history that he is a very dangerous man, and the sentence he is serving out of Crawford County reflects that.
Bolden made no comments during Wednesday’s hearing other than to answer Mead’s questions.