Man is sentenced to 10 years in jail

CHARLESTON -- A Charleston man was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Chris Atchison, 36, was sentenced Thursday in Mississippi County Circuit Court on the felony charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and a misdemeanor charge of possession of controlled substance (marijuana).

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