KANSAS CITY – A Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court Friday for stealing a firearm from a murder victim, according to Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Alfred C. Crater, Jr., 40, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to nine years and two months in federal prison without parole.

On Dec. 4, 2015, Crater pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm. Crater admitted that he was in possession of a Hi-Point .40-caliber pistol, which he had stolen from a homicide scene on Feb. 19, 2012. Crater took the pistol from Anthony Wayne Van Buren, a murder victim, before the police arrived at the crime scene. Crater was later stopped by police in the area of Linwood and Indiana, Kansas City, Mo., and found to be in possession of the stolen pistol.

Crater has nine felony convictions, including a prior federal felony conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was on state probation at the time of the offense.