HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona man arrested last year after police found him in possession of stolen guns, drugs and cash was sentenced Thursday to

2.5 years to 10 years in prison.

Shayne Phillip McDade, 25, who has been in Blair County Prison since his arrest in mid-February 2020, rendered no contest pleas to criminal conspiracy, possession with intent to deliver and three counts of receiving stolen property.

The three counts of receiving stolen property applied to two handguns and a short-barrel rifle.

Altoona police confiscated those and other firearms during an investigation that started Feb. 15, 2020, when officers were dispatched to a possible domestic dispute at an apartment on the 1200 block of 14th Avenue.

At the apartment, responding officers saw marijuana and drug paraphernalia. They found McDade sleeping in a bedroom with a loaded Glock Model 43 handgun on the nightstand.

After securing search warrants for that apartment and for McDade’s apartment on the 1100 block of 13th Avenue, police took possession of the Glock handgun, an additional 12 guns found in a safe, plus marijuana, fentanyl and other drug-related materials.

Police also arrested Marcial R. Vasquez at the apartment on the 1100 block of 13th Avenue. Online court records show Vasquez was granted parole in December based on guilty pleas rendered in August to criminal conspiracy and possession with intent to deliver charges.

Judge Jackie Bernard, who accepted McDade’s no contest pleas, told McDade that he will be credited for time served in Blair County Prison toward the state sentence she was imposing.

Defense attorney Thomas M. Dickey said McDade has a parole violation to address in Cambria County before his anticipated transfer to the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill.

McDade is also eligible, the attorneys and Bernard agreed, to be considered for early release of non-violent offenders through the Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive program managed by the state Department of Corrections.

Weeks told McDade that his no contest pleas to the firearm offenses, which the state recognizes as convictions, make him ineligible for future possession of a firearm.

The law allows 60 days, Weeks said, for McDade to arrange to sell or transfer any firearms he currently owns or possess. Thereafter, McDade will face serious consequences if found in possession of a firearm, Weeks said.

Mirror Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 814-946-7456.