Telegraph file photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Shawn Goodine, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to a firearms charge in connection with last year's standoff on Chestnut Street, is shown with Judge James Leary during his video arraignment on charges stemming from the standoff.

CONCORD – Shawn Goodine, the Nashua man charged with escalating a domestic disturbance to an 11-hour armed standoff at his Chestnut Street apartment a year ago, has pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, according to United States Attorney for New Hampshire Scott W. Murray.

Goodine, now 44, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 27, 2021.

Nashua police initially charged Goodine with one count each of criminal threatening – domestic violence, criminal threatening and resisting arrest or detention, all Class A misdemeanors, for allegedly threatening a woman at his 148 1/2 Chestnut St. apartment and refusing police orders to exit the building.

Police kept open the investigation, which eventually led federal authorities to file the felon in possession charge under their jurisdiction.

Murray said Tuesday in announcing Goodine’s guilty plea that Goodine, during the 11-hour standoff, made several calls to friends and family, claiming that he had a firearm and that he would “not come out alive.”

Goodine could also be heard yelling from inside the apartment such things as “this isn’t going to end well,” and if police “come into my house, I’m gonna light it up,” according to Murray.

Eventually, police lobbed chemical munitions – teargas – through basement windows, which forced Goodine to come out and surrender.

Goodine, according to Murray, is prohibited from possessing a firearm and ammunition because he is a convicted felon.

Goodine acquired convicted-felon status in August 2015, when he pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, a charge that accused him of having in his possession a shotgun with a barrel length of 12 inches.

Officials said that a shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long must be registered with the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, which, according to prosecutors, Goodine failed to do.

Goodine was sentenced in that case in November 2015, but it wasn’t immediately known how much time he served.

On Tuesday, meanwhile, Murray said the safety of the state’s communities depends heavily on “keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.

“Each day, we work closely with our law enforcement partners to identify and prosecute criminals who endanger our citizens by unlawfully possessing firearms,” Murray added.

He said Nashua police, along with representatives of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, investigated the Goodine case, which was “part of ATF’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.”

A federally-funded program, the initiative is aimed at reducing gun violence “through law enforcement training, public education, and aggressive law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute gun-related crimes,” Murray said.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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