A man acquitted of murder last week in Kanawha County was indicted on federal gun charges Tuesday.
Miguel Quinones, 37, is charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was found not guilty June 14 in the 2013 death of Kareem Hunter, who was beaten to death in a Marmet apartment and buried in a shallow grave in Raleigh County.
The day after Quinones was acquitted of the murder charge, federal officials arrested and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was indicted on two counts of that charge Tuesday.
According to the federal filing, Quinones had two guns in Dunbar in October 2013, and two guns when he was arrested at his girlfriend's Charleston home on a probation violation in December 2013.
Quinones was convicted 16 years ago of second-degree murder in the 1995 death of Christopher Reardon, a Beckley bar owner. He was released in 2011, but remained on probation. The felony conviction prohibited him from having a gun, the federal allegation states.
In December 2013, Quinones was arrested at his girlfriend's Charleston townhouse for allegedly violating probation. He was charged in Hunter's death shortly after.
Quinones faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence if convicted of the federal charges.