Ex-State Sen. Dean Tran sentenced in gun larceny case involving constituent

Former Sen Dean Tran of Fitchburg pleaded guilty to three state charges Monday in connection with stealing a firearm from an elderly constituent and misleading investigators about it according to the attorney general s office With his trial scheduled to begin Monday Tran pleaded guilty to larceny of a firearm misleading law enforcement in a criminal analysis and filing an application for a license to carry containing false information the AG s office reported Tran was sentenced to six months in the Worcester House of Correction Tran used his position of trust as a citizens official to take advantage of an elderly constituent who had called him for help in June of Attorney General Andrea Campbell s office stated Tran convinced the constituent into parting with her late husband s firearm collection and gave her approximately in cash for at least eight guns When questioned to return the firearms over that weekend he did but then came back early on Monday morning while the constituent was home alone and stole a Colt pistol from the firearm collection Prosecutors explained Tran gave police several conflicting stories in an effort to mislead the police probe In federal court in February Tran was sentenced to months in prison followed by two years of supervised release having been convicted of felony counts including COVID and tax fraud He was indicted by a federal grand jury in November and convicted in September of counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to defraud the state and failure to document income to the IRS In Worcester Superior Court on Monday Tran was sentenced to six months on each of the three charges to be served concurrently with each other and with the federal sentence he is now serving the AG s office commented noting three charges were dismissed in consideration of the agreed plea A Republican Tran served in the Massachusetts Senate from late until early