According to ABC 6 in Providence, a New Bedford man was sentenced to prison time after being convicted of trafficking cocaine and possessing an illegal gun. The 27-year-old Tylor Martin pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on Friday to charges that included Carrying an illegal firearm with a prior violent conviction as well as drug charges of trafficking cocaine. After he was arrested, police said they found a loaded 9 mm handgun and narcotics in plain view seizing 48 grams of cocaine along with a 30-round high-capacity firearm magazine.

Martin was sentenced to serve three to four years in state prison as he still faces charges of domestic assault and battery, assault, strangulation, intimidation, breaking and entering and unarmed robbery for two separate incidents from 2021.