Joshua Sunderland
A felon found in Soddy Daisy with a knife and a gun has been sentenced to serve 46 months in federal prison.
Joshua Sunderland appeared before Judge Curtis Collier.
On Nov. 12, 2020, a Soddy Daisy Police Department officer stopped a vehicle he saw being driven by Sunderland.
He had written Sunderland a citation for driving without a license approximately a week earlier, so he knew he did not have a valid driver’s license.
The officer removed a knife from the defendant’s belt during a pat down and removed six .410 shotgun shells from his right coin pocket.
After being read his rights, Sunderland indicated there was a gun in the trunk of the car covered by a blanket. The officer located a loaded Harrington and Richardson, Model 48 Topper, .410 single-shot shotgun. The buttstock of the shotgun had been cut off and could no longer be mounted to the shoulder.
Sunderland admitted he was a convicted felon for a prior evading arrest conviction.