Felon Convicted for Illegally-Owned Gun

Written By The Mountain Eagle on 4/21/25 | 4/21/25

Shawn Stuber, 43, was convicted of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a class D felony, in the Schoharie County Court. On November 21, 2023, Mr. Stuber was arrested for Possession of a Loaded Firearm and Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree in Cobleskill. Mr. Stuber admitted to firing a gun while his acquaintance was fighting with an off-duty NYS trooper. The trooper was attempting to prevent the acquaintance from damaging his neighbor’s robotic lawn mower. Mr. Stuber was a convicted felon and not permitted to legally own a gun. Mr. Stuber was sentenced by the Court to indeterminate sentence of three and one-half (3.5) to seven (7) years imprisonment, a surcharge of $300, crime victim advocate fee of $25, $50 DNA surcharge, and a fifteen (15) year order of protection was issued for the victim. New York State Police Investigators Bird and Castiglione were the arresting officers.