YOUNGSTOWN — A 26-year-old man has been convicted of a federal gun charge.

Yaumbrail Jones, who last gave authorities a West LaClede Avenue, Youngstown address, appeared via video Jan. 14 before U.S. Judge Benita Y. Pearson and pleaded guilty to one count of having a weapon as a felon.

Jones is scheduled to be sentenced 10:30 a.m May 6 at a federal courtroom in Youngstown. He remains in federal custody, records show.

The court action came after Jones and his attorney Nathan Ray agreed to drop an evidence suppression motion in the case. The defense had wanted to suppress any evidence found by Warren police in a search of a Fifth Street, Warren, apartment last summer. The defense also called for the judge to dismiss the case against Jones because the woman to whom the apartment was leased hadn’t given permission for police to search the place.

Authorities were looking for Jones because he had violated parole, and an escape warrant was issued for him by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority. Warren police responded to the Fifth Street apartment twice — on Aug. 17 and 18 last year — after a woman identified Jones as assaulting her. The woman also told police the man had left the apartment in a silver Hyundai Tuscan and carried a machine gun with a lunch box full of heroin.

On Aug. 20, the document states, police went back to the apartment and found Jones lying on a bed. Under the bed, officers found a rifle. The document states police also found some narcotics and paraphernalia.

Jones was federally indicted Nov. 16, 2020, on the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Court records show Jones had been convicted in the spring of 2014 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on a felonious assault and weapons under disability charge.