DENVER—A former Boulder police officer accused of helping to sell Army-issued rifle silencers has been sentenced to three years of probation, including six months of home detention.
Eric Lee was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty earlier this year to possession of an unregistered silencer.
Court documents say Lee served in the Army from 2004 to 2009 before joining the Colorado Army National Guard. He was accused of bringing silencers home from Iraq in 2006 without authorization and giving some of them to fellow guardsman Matthew Laflin, who was accused of selling them to a federal informant.
The Denver Post reports () Lee’s attorney had argued against a prison sentence, saying Lee could’ve faced abuse from other inmates as a former police officer.
Laflin is scheduled to be sentenced in September.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
