Mexican National Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Gun Possession

Gulf Breeze, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- A thirty-four-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to ten months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm in Gulf Breeze. Teodoro Rodriguez-Alvarez pleaded guilty to the gun charge. In July, police found Rodriguez-Alvarez passed out in a pickup truck on the Pensacola Bay Bridge. He was arrested for DUI and illegal gun possession. A pistol was discovered in a bag near the driver's seat. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations handled the case with assistance from the Gulf Breeze Police Department.