A Prince George man will serve roughly 11 more months in jail on convictions related to the seizure of cocaine and firearms from a Quinson neighbourhood home in 2014.
Christopher Michael Bollenbach, 29, was sentenced Thursday to 19 1/2 months in total less credit for 252 days time served.
Eighteen months of that sentence for was for possession of a loaded firearm while he also received a concurrent nine-month term for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
He also received consecutive terms of 30 days for driving while prohibited under the Motor Vehicle Act and a total of 14 days for breach of an undertaking and failing to appear in court.
In all, it added up to a further 340 days in jail for Bollenbach.
The drugs and firearms charges stem from a March 2014 arrest when RCMP executed a warrant on a 300-block Lyon Street home.
They found 97 grams of cocaine, $660 cash, a shotgun and, in a safe, a .45 calibre handgun loaded with six bullets.
At the time of his arrest, Bollenbach told police he kept the handgun there as a way to protect himself in the event he was ordered at gunpoint to open it up.
The sentence could have been much steeper. Case law showed sentences of up to 40 months for the firearms offence but, in agreeing to a joint submission from Crown and defence counsels, provincial court judge Randall Callan noted Bollenbach pleaded guilty and has earned a half-dozen certificates of achievement, some related to coping with addictions, while in custody.
Bollenbach was also sentenced to 18 months probation and issued a 10-year firearms prohibition. And as for the conviction for driving while prohibited, he was also issued a three-year prohibition against driving and fined $1,000.
