Man to spend nearly a decade in prison for illegal firearm possession charges

A member of the Lows street gang in Minneapolis will be spending time in federal prison after being convicted of all charges filed against him.

Court documents show 28-year-old Clenest Wells Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to spend a little under 10 years (116 months) in prison and three years of probation for three counts of illegal firearm possession and one count of illegal machine gun possession.

During Wells’ sentencing, a release notes Judge Donovan Frank said, “The amount of gun violence we are having in Minnesota is just off the charts.”…

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