GREENVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) – A Holmes County man was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Wednesday after he was convicted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

According to court documents, Tamarius Webster, 37, of Cruger, pled guilty in April to the charge.

Webster was arrested in September 2022 while deputies with the United States Marshals Service were serving an arrest warrant for kidnapping. They said Webster was found in possession of a firearm in Oxford.

Following a hearing on Wednesday, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Debra M. Brown sentenced Webster to 70 months in prison for his illegal possession of that firearm. Upon release from prison, Webster will serve a three-year term of supervised release. He was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals following sentencing.