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A 35-year-old city man who had been barred from weapons possession due to a previous conviction was sentenced to ten years in a New Jersey state prison after he was found guilty of weapons offenses, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.

Radavine Allah, also known as Robert Brown, 35, of Monroe Avenue, will serve ten years with a mandatory five-year term of parole ineligibility. He was also sentenced to a concurrent 18-month prison term for fourth degree resisting arrest and had his parole terminated for violating the terms of it in a 2009 indictment. He received the sentence Friday from Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Richard W. English.

Asbury Park Police responded to a call reporting suspicious activity in the 500 block of First Avenue in March of 2010 where they found Allah sitting in the front passenger’s side of a vehicle across from the public library with a loaded Kel-Tec .32 caliber semi-automatic handgun wrapped in a knit hat hidden inside of a pocket. He was convicted of second degree persons not to have weapons in October of last year.

Allah had been barred from possessing weapons after a 2002 conviction for aggravated assault on a police officer. He faced a possible 10 to 20 year extended-term eligible sentence in state prison with a period of parole ineligibility of one-third to one-half of the sentence imposed or 5 years, whichever is greater.

Assistant Prosecutor Margaret Koping prosecuted the case.

Allah was represented by Robert J. Konzelmann, Howell.

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