By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

‘Prolific’ Nanaimo offender sentenced to 3 months on gun charge

Mar 16, 2017 | 2:28 PM

NANAIMO — A Nanaimo man with a long history of offences will be behind bars for the next three months.

Kerry Chang, 49, was sentenced Thursday, March 16, after pleading guilty to occupying a vehicle when firearms were present.

He was arrested Jan. 15 after police found him with a loaded Glock pistol, more than $7,000 cash and small bags which possibly contained meth and cocaine.

At the time, RCMP said they considered Chang a “prolific” offender with numerous violent offences on his record.

Two other charges and a breach of probation order were stayed by the courts after Chang pleaded guilty.

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He’ll spend the next 90 days in the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre in Victoria.

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