Danville man pleads guilty to federal gun charge

URBANA – A Danville man with a prior weapons convictions admitted Tuesday in federal court in Urbana that he had a weapon illegally.

Abner C. Robertson, whose last known address was in the 1000 block of Belton Avenue, Danville, agreed to an open guilty plea Tuesday on a federal charge of possession of a weapon by a felon.

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