WICHITA, KAN. – A Kansas man with a state prison record was sentenced Tuesday to 87 months in federal prison for carrying a gun, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.

Darnell Wilks, 49, Garden City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

A Garden City police officer arrested Wilks in March 2017. The officer saw Wilks walking down the middle of west Kansas Ave. and stopped to talk to him.

Wilks ran away from the officer. During the chase, Wilks threw down a .45 caliber handgun. He was prohibited from possessing a firearm because he was convicted in 2014 in Finney County District Court on a charge of making a criminal threat.