Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a woman for allegedly possessing two unregistered handguns in the Town of Kent. The woman was reportedly on a trip from Texas to Maine and tried to sell one of the guns for gas money.

On February 16, 2017, the Sheriff’s Office received a call from a representative of the Precision Armory gun store located at 423 Route 52 in the Town of Kent. The caller reported that a woman was at the establishment and was offering to sell a handgun, but lacked the required documentation to legally possess the firearm.

Sergeant William Quick responded to the call and located the woman as she was departing from the gun store in her vehicle. The woman, identified as Ms. Theresa A. Sager, aged 50, of 841 Gore Road in Alfred, Maine, was allegedly found to be in possession of two unregistered handguns–a .32 caliber revolver and a .380 caliber semiautomatic pistol–for which she did not have the required license. The defendant reportedly stated that she had acquired the firearms in Texas while living there and was moving back to Maine; she said she was trying to sell a firearm to the gun store for gas money to continue her trip.

Sergeant Quick arrested Ms. Seger and charged her with two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class A misdemeanor. The defendant was processed at the Sheriff’s Office and arraigned before Town of Southeast Justice Gregory Folchetti, sitting on behalf of the Town of Kent Justice Court, and was released on her own recognizance pending a future appearance in the Kent Court. If found guilty, she could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.00 on each count.