Weapon arsenal results in jail time

A Coupeville felon pleads guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree

“A Coupeville felon caught by Sheriff’s deputies with a small arsenal of weapons recently received some jail time.Robert Dunsmore, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree in Island County Superior Court Jan. 5. The prosecutor dropped a third count as part of a plea bargain.Judge Alan Hancock handed Dunsmore the minimum sentence of four months in jail.Deputies responded to Dunsmore’s Leahy Drive home last year after Dunsmore’s wife reported that she had been assaulted by her husband and her husband’s brother, according to a report written by Island County Deputy Mark Plumberg.The woman said Dunsmore and his brother pushed her around after she went to retrieve them from a neighbor’s party. After telling them she was going to call police, she went home and locked the door to protect her five children and the babysitter.Her brother-in-law allegedly kicked in the front door to her house. Dunsmore kicked in the door to the closet where she was hiding, took some guns and threatened her. The two men drove away in a car.Plumberg wrote that he and another deputy searched the Coupeville area until they found the two men in the car parked at the Rhododendron Park.After taking the men into custody, Plumberg reported that they found some unusual items in the car. There was a shotgun loaded with five slugs between the front seats, a semi-auto Ruger 7.62 assault rifle, a magazine with 28 rounds, a .45 caliber Colt semi-auto handgun, a survival knife, a hunting knife, an ammo holder with 7mm rounds, empty beer cans and a case of beer on the back seat.Since both men have been convicted of felonies, they were both arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of firearms. “