Former Massachusetts state Sen. Dean Tran of Fitchburg pleaded responsible to 3 state fees Monday in reference to stealing a firearm from an aged constituent and deceptive investigators about it, in line with the lawyer common’s workplace.
Along with his trial scheduled to start Monday, Tran, 49, pleaded responsible to larceny of a firearm, deceptive regulation enforcement in a prison investigation, and submitting an software for a license to hold containing false info, the AG’s workplace stated. Tran was sentenced to 6 months within the Worcester Home of Correction.
“Tran used his place of belief as a public official to benefit from an aged constituent who had known as him for assist in June of 2019,” Lawyer Normal Andrea Campbell’s workplace stated. “Tran satisfied the constituent into parting together with her late husband’s firearm assortment and gave her roughly $1,500 in money for no less than eight weapons. When requested to return the firearms over that weekend, he did, however then got here again early on Monday morning whereas the constituent was dwelling alone and stole a Colt .45 pistol from the firearm assortment.”
Prosecutors stated Tran gave police “a number of conflicting tales in an effort to mislead the police investigation.”
In federal court docket in February, Tran was sentenced to 18 months in jail adopted by two years of supervised launch, having been convicted of 23 felony counts together with COVID and tax fraud. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2023 and convicted in September 2024 of 20 counts of wire fraud and three counts of submitting false tax returns in reference to a scheme to defraud the state and failure to report earnings to the IRS.
In Worcester Superior Court docket on Monday, Tran was sentenced to 6 months on every of the three fees, “to be served concurrently with one another and with the federal sentence he’s at present serving,” the AG’s workplace stated, noting three fees had been dismissed “in consideration of the agreed plea.”
A Republican, Tran served within the Massachusetts Senate from late 2017 till early 2021.
