LANCASTER – A woman arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl who was killed in July 2017 was sentenced Wednesday on federal firearms charges.
Laporshya Polley, 27, was found guilty in May on one count of acquiring a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer by false or fictitious statement and one count of false statement with respect to information required to be kept in records of a licensed firearms dealer.
A federal judge sentenced Polley to four years in prison and two years of probation, court records show.
The charges stem from a May 2017 purchase at DFW Gun Range.
Polley bought an FN handgun from the store and claimed she was buying the firearm for herself, documents show.
Officials said she actually bought the gun for her boyfriend, Darius Fields, a convicted felon who was not legally permitted to buy firearms.
Polley and Fields were arrested June 29 at a motel in Irving, where Polley was reportedly attempting to flush marijuana down a toilet.
Police found the handgun in a bag with some clothes and ammunition on a desk in the room, according to a trial transcript.
The couple was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Shavon Randle, 13, who was reported missing from her aunt’s house in Lancaster on June 28, 2017.
The pair had been named persons of interest in the disappearance.
Two days before Shavon was reported missing, Kendall Perkins stole $150,000 worth of drugs from Fields, Devontae Owens and Polley at a Motel 6 in Lancaster, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Police documents said Shavon was kidnapped “in retaliation” for the June 26, 2017, drug robbery. Perkins was the boyfriend of Shavon’s cousin.
Shavon’s body was found July 2 in a boarded-up house in east Oak Cliff. She had been shot in the head and torso.
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