A Philadelphia felon was sentenced on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, to serve up to a dozen years in prison on drug dealing and gun possession charges.

Ishmael Colon, 35 pleaded guilty in April to five counts of persons not to possess a firearm and one count each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He appeared before Common Pleas Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. on Tuesday and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison, followed by nine to 12 months of probation.

Colon was taken into custody without incident in June 2023 after he sold a 9-mm handgun and cocaine to a subject known to police.

Police recovered the handgun, two grams of cocaine and $1,600 on Colon. Ishmael Colon is prohibited to be in possession of a firearm by law because of previous felony convictions.

During a subsequent search of his home in Philadelphia, police recovered five additional handguns, one of them an AR style rifle.

This case was investigated by the Bensalem Township Police Department, Bucks County Detectives and the Philadelphia Police Department FBI Task Force and was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Thomas C. Gannon.

Media Contact: Manuel Gamiz Jr., 215.348.6298, mgamiz@buckscounty.org