Biography
Howard B. Brutton Jr. was convicted with Robert Ferraro and George DeMeo in the 1980 North Carolina and New York gun-running case, for conspiring to transport weapons to Northern Ireland. The three received prison sentences of five to ten years, with related firearms offences also involved.
Bounded sentencing year
Contemporary reporting establishes the sentencing year, not the precise day. An authorized official BOP name search for Howard Brutton returned zero results on October 12, 2026. That does not prove he was never incarcerated; federal locator coverage is incomplete for historical cases. No namesake genealogical portrait is substituted. Missing arrest, admission, release and identified photograph remain unresolved.
