Ohio Man Sentenced for Illegal Possession of Firearm

COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati, Ohio, man, Gregory Kimble, 37, was sentenced on Tuesday to 97 months by U.S. District Judge Chad Meredith for felon in possession of a firearm.

According to court documents, in the early hours of January 1, 2025, officers responded to a hotel in Covington and encountered a woman who told them that she had just discharged Kimble's pistol in the hallway outside his hotel room before fleeing to the lobby. She also indicated that Kimble had discharged the pistol in the hotel room hours before. Officers did not find the pistol on January 1, 2025, but they did find a spent cartridge and two live rounds of ammunition in Kimble's room. They also observed a bullet hole in the wall outside his room.

On January 2, 2025, Kimble engaged in a text message conversation from jail regarding the retrieval of his property from the hotel. During that conversation, Kimble asked the other person to let Kimble know when he goes to the hotel so that Kimble could provide him with "specific instructions on how to do something else very important." Law enforcement thereafter returned to the hotel and located a pistol hidden on a ceiling tile in the hotel's internal stairwell that matched the woman's description of Kimble's pistol, as well as the ammunition found in Kimble's hotel room. Kimble admitted to possession of the firearm and that he knew he was prohibited from possessing a firearm because of a prior felony. Kimble also admitted that he had hidden the firearm on the ceiling tile.

Kimble was previously convicted of trafficking in controlled substances in 2019.

Jason Parman, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; and John Nokes, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Louisville Field Division; and Chief Justin Wietholter, Covington Police Department, announced the sentence.

he investigation was referred to ATF by the Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney's Office, who separately indicted Kimble for other, state-level felony crimes in connection with Kimble's conduct on January 1, 2025. The investigation was conducted by the Covington Police Department and the ATF. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Spievack is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.

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